Planning, operating and paying for public movement services
Transportation contracts separate along one line that decides everything else: who takes the revenue risk. Under a gross cost contract the authority keeps the fares and pays the operator to run a specified service, so the operator's risk is cost and reliability. Under a net cost or concession arrangement the operator keeps the fares and carries the demand risk, and is therefore given more freedom over service design and marketing. The same route tendered both ways attracts different bidders and very different prices.
The specification is a timetable with consequences attached. Frequency, first and last service, vehicle capacity and type, punctuality windows, and the deduction regime for cancelled or late departures form the core, and performance is measured from automatic vehicle location data rather than reported by the operator. Integration obligations are increasingly specified too: accepting a common ticket, publishing timetable and real-time data in open formats, and connecting with services run by other operators.
Assets and staff are the qualification. Depot capacity, a fleet meeting the specified emission and accessibility standards with a stated maximum age, and a licensed, trained driver pool are checked rather than promised, and where a service transfers from an incumbent, employment protection rules commonly move the staff across with their terms. Contract length is set by the asset life a bidder must finance, which is why these arrangements run for years and why the residual value and hand-back terms for vehicles and depots deserve as much attention as the operating price.
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 transportation in Netherlands?
GlobalGov holds 57 transportation records from 39 distinct buying organisations in Netherlands. The most frequent publishers are Gemeente Amsterdam, Ingenieursbureau (4 records); Gemeente Den Haag (4 records); Coöperatieve Vereniging Midwaste Milieu UA (3 records); Gemeente Rotterdam (3 records); Gemeente Eindhoven (2 records); Wageningen University & Research (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 32% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gemeente Amsterdam, Ingenieursbureau | 4 | 7.0% |
| Gemeente Den Haag | 4 | 7.0% |
| Coöperatieve Vereniging Midwaste Milieu UA | 3 | 5.3% |
| Gemeente Rotterdam | 3 | 5.3% |
| Gemeente Eindhoven | 2 | 3.5% |
| Wageningen University & Research | 2 | 3.5% |
What are transportation contracts worth in Netherlands?
21 of the 57 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.6M and the largest single published value is $10.2M. By size, 9 between $100k and $1M, 11 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 36 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 | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 9 | 43% |
| between $1M and $10M | 11 | 52% |
| above $10M | 1 | 4.8% |
How long do bidders get to respond to transportation tenders in Netherlands?
Across the 33 Netherlands transportation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 26 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 52. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 2 (6.1%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are transportation tenders published in Netherlands?
Netherlands publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 36 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 36, spread across 18 separate months of activity since 21 September 2016. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 7 September 2026.
How does Netherlands compare with other transportation markets?
Among the 27 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable transportation market, Netherlands ranks 19th by number of records. The largest is Zambia (26,764 records against 57 here). Within Netherlands itself, transportation is the 56th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Netherlands transportation 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.
Open Transportation tenders in Netherlands
Showing 1 of the 1 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Netherlands market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
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