Public procurement in Netherlands in numbers: supply contracts on TED, 2023–2026

The headline numbers

contract awards for supplies

8,509

contract awards for supplies

TED award notices they come from

6,186

TED award notices they come from

distinct winning companies

2,731

distinct winning companies

of awards went to a company registered in Netherlands

93.7%

of awards went to a company registered in Netherlands

went to a company registered abroad, most often in Germany

6.3%

went to a company registered abroad, most often in Germany

of awards with a known tender count came from a single tender

25.3%

of awards with a known tender count came from a single tender

Counted on 8 November 2026 from live TED contract award notices, awards dated since 1 November 2023. An award is one winner on one lot or contract line; it is not a tender and not an amount of money. "Local" means registered in Netherlands: a foreign group's local subsidiary counts as local. The single-bid share counts award rows from lots with exactly one tender. TED carries the contracts above the EU thresholds, not all public purchasing. How we count.

All public purchasing in Netherlands — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €242 billion in 2025, 20.7% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending. Source: Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp).

How the contracts are awarded in Netherlands

tenders per awarded lot (median, 6,961 lots with a stated count)

2

tenders per awarded lot (median, 6,961 lots with a stated count)

of awarded lots drew three or more tenders

45.2%

of awarded lots drew three or more tenders

of award notices come from a negotiated procedure without a prior call for competition (935 of 6,193)

15.1%

of award notices come from a negotiated procedure without a prior call for competition (935 of 6,193)

of award notices name more than one buyer (223 joint purchases)

3.6%

of award notices name more than one buyer (223 joint purchases)

from the conclusion of the contract to the notice on TED (median)

18 days

from the conclusion of the contract to the notice on TED (median)

of award notices appear within 30 days of the contract

66.0%

of award notices appear within 30 days of the contract

of awards that state the winner's size went to a small or medium-sized company (size stated for 85.2% of awards)

72.6%

of awards that state the winner's size went to a small or medium-sized company (size stated for 85.2% of awards)

Counted on 10 November 2026 from live TED contract award notices for supplies, awards dated since 1 November 2023. A lot is one part of a procedure; the tender count is the number the buyer states for the lot. "Without a prior call" is the procedure the notice itself names (negotiated without prior call for competition). Days run from the last contract concluded under a notice to the day TED published it; notices without that date are left out. Winner size is what the buyer ticked in the notice, so it is a share of the awards that state it, not of all awards. A figure is shown only where the field is filled in for at least 60% of the notices. Full method.

Product categories with the most winning companies

Each category has a page with its size, its buyers and the companies that win most often. The number is how many companies have won a public supply contract in the category in Netherlands since November 2023 (updated daily).

1. Software package and information systems266 companies
2. Motor vehicles208 companies
3. Medical equipments171 companies
4. Furniture158 companies
5. Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts145 companies
6. Computer equipment and supplies128 companies
7. Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)122 companies
8. Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery115 companies
9. Machinery for the production and use of mechanical power104 companies
10. Instruments for checking physical characteristics90 companies
11. Construction materials and associated items90 companies
12. Furnishing71 companies

Who wins, who buys, how to enter

• Companies winning public supply contracts in Netherlands
• Public buyers in Netherlands and what they buy
• How to enter the Netherlands market through distributors
• All 30 countries compared

How to cite

Cresques, "Public procurement in Netherlands in numbers: supply contracts on TED, 2023–2026", counted 8 November 2026 from TED contract award notices, https://cresques.com/data/nl. Every figure has its own address: add the anchor, for example https://cresques.com/data/nl#single-bid-rate. Licence CC BY 4.0; the same figures for every country are in one JSON file. Press and researchers: hello@cresques.com.