Licensing, staffing models and what a guarding contract really costs
Manned guarding is a regulated activity in most jurisdictions, and the licence is the first gate. Individual officers hold a licence for the activity they perform -- static guarding, door supervision, cash in transit, close protection -- and the company holds an approval of its own, with screening of employment history over a stated number of years before an officer is deployed. Buyers verify the licences rather than the assertion, and a bid based on a workforce that does not yet hold them is a delivery risk the evaluation is designed to find.
The price is a wage plus an on-cost, and the room for manoeuvre is narrow. Applicable wage floors, holiday and sickness cover, training time, and the relief factor needed to keep a post covered around the clock are close to fixed, so an unusually low bid is usually a signal about one of them. Where a contract is transferring from an incumbent, employment protection rules commonly move the existing officers across on existing terms, which fixes most of the cost before the bidder starts and makes the transferring staff information supplied at tender the most important document in the pack.
Specifications increasingly describe outcomes and the technology that supports them rather than hours on a gate. Assignment instructions, incident reporting, patrol verification, control room monitoring, response times to alarms and integration with electronic access and surveillance systems are all defined and measured. For sites with public access or vulnerable users, conflict management and safeguarding training are specified, and the buyer usually retains the right to require removal of an individual officer without cause, which the bidder has to be able to absorb.
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 security services in Netherlands?
GlobalGov holds 1,431 security services records from 512 distinct buying organisations in Netherlands. The most frequent publishers are Ministerie van Defensie (36 records); Gemeente Den Haag (27 records); Gemeente Rotterdam (15 records); Inkoop Uitvoeringscentrum Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (IUC DJI) (15 records); Gemeente Amsterdam (12 records); Provincie Zuid-Holland (11 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 8.1% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ministerie van Defensie | 36 | 2.5% |
| Gemeente Den Haag | 27 | 1.9% |
| Gemeente Rotterdam | 15 | 1.0% |
| Inkoop Uitvoeringscentrum Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (IUC DJI) | 15 | 1.0% |
| Gemeente Amsterdam | 12 | 0.8% |
| Provincie Zuid-Holland | 11 | 0.8% |
What are security services contracts worth in Netherlands?
404 of the 1,431 records publish a contract value. The median is $4.3M and the largest single published value is $3.8B. By size, 27 under $100k, 79 between $100k and $1M, 150 between $1M and $10M, 148 above $10M. The remaining 1,027 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.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 27 | 6.7% |
| between $100k and $1M | 79 | 20% |
| between $1M and $10M | 150 | 37% |
| above $10M | 148 | 37% |
How long do bidders get to respond to security services tenders in Netherlands?
Across the 263 Netherlands security services notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 50 days. A quarter of them allowed 42 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 62. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 4 (1.5%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are security services tenders published in Netherlands?
Netherlands publishes about 32 notices a month in this category, 387 in the last twelve months. That is 176% more than the 140 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 739, spread across 80 separate months of activity since 15 February 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 security services markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable security services market, Netherlands ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within Netherlands itself, security services is the 7th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Netherlands security services records on this page come from?
These 1,431 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (1,431). 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 Security Services 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 security services notice in Netherlands is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Netherlands – Supply services of personnel including temporary staff – Instellen DAS
Netherlands – Supply services of personnel including temporary staff – Instellen DAS t.b.v. het Noord Veluws Archief (N.o.V.A.)
Netherlands – Recruitment services – Recruitmentoplossing Tram- en Metrobestuurders, Buschauffeurs & Buitengewoon Opsporingsambtenaren (BOA's)
Netherlands – Assessment centre services for recruitment – Assessments
Netherlands – Supply services of personnel including temporary staff – DAS Vastgoedadviesdiensten
Netherlands – Career guidance services – Loopbaanbegeleiding
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