Research and Studies Government Tenders in Netherlands

Commissioned studies, methodology scoring and the right to publish

A commissioned study is bought for a decision the buyer has to make, and the tender usually states the decision. That matters because the strongest bids answer the decision rather than the question as written: they say what the study can and cannot establish, what the sample will support, and where the evidence will remain thin. Evaluation in this category is weighted heavily toward methodology, and a proposal that claims certainty the method cannot deliver is scored down by any competent panel.

The practical constraints are access and ethics. Studies that involve interviews, survey respondents or administrative data need approvals before fieldwork begins, and the timetable for those approvals is frequently longer than the fieldwork itself. Data protection obligations govern how personal data is collected, stored, anonymised and destroyed, and the contract normally names the roles of each party in handling it. A bid whose programme starts fieldwork immediately after award has usually not accounted for this.

Ownership and publication are negotiated terms with real consequences. Public buyers commonly take ownership of the report and the underlying data, reserve the right to publish, and require the raw data and code in a reusable form so the analysis can be reproduced. Researchers often want the right to publish independently, and the compromise is usually a delay period rather than a veto. Bidders should also read the clause on findings the buyer dislikes: the credible contracts protect the researcher's conclusions explicitly, and the absence of that protection tells you something about the commission.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys research and studies in Netherlands?

GlobalGov holds 57 research and studies records from 27 distinct buying organisations in Netherlands. The most frequent publishers are Provincie Zuid-Holland (3 records); BIJ12 namens IPO (2 records); Gemeente Amsterdam (2 records); Ministerie van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur (2 records); Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (2 records); Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 23% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are research and studies contracts worth in Netherlands?

14 of the 57 records publish a contract value. The median is $661,500 and the largest single published value is $41.0M. By size, 2 under $100k, 6 between $100k and $1M, 3 between $1M and $10M, 3 above $10M. The remaining 43 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to research and studies tenders in Netherlands?

Across the 29 Netherlands research and studies notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 46 days. A quarter of them allowed 40 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 58. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (3.4%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are research and studies tenders published in Netherlands?

Netherlands publishes about 4 notices a month in this category, 47 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 54, spread across 13 separate months of activity since 27 September 2017. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does Netherlands compare with other research and studies markets?

Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research and studies market, Netherlands ranks 15th by number of records. The largest is France (1,079 records against 57 here). Within Netherlands itself, research and studies is the 55th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Netherlands research and studies records on this page come from?

These 57 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (57). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Most recent Research and Studies tenders in Netherlands

None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical research and studies notice in Netherlands is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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