Stowa is organizing a market consultation for the Research and Development Programme Purification of the Future, aimed at developing a completely new wastewater treatment concept (CPV 45350000-5 Mechanical engineering installations). The project is technical in nature and includes modelling, pilot setup, and testing various combined solutions at a central pilot location. The procedure is conducted as a market consultation without a definitively determined value, lots, or turnover requirements. Due to the absence of heavy administrative burdens and an open innovation approach, this is of interest to SME suppliers with expertise in water and energy technology, and experience in modelling and pilots.
Contract · National procedure
01What is being requested
Stowa is organizing a market consultation for the Research and Development Programme Purification of the Future, aimed at developing a completely new wastewater treatment concept (CPV 45350000-5 Mechanical engineering installations). The project is technical in nature and includes modelling, pilot setup, and testing various combined solutions at a central pilot location. The procedure is conducted as a market consultation without a definitively determined value, lots, or turnover requirements. Due to the absence of heavy administrative burdens and an open innovation approach, this is of interest to SME suppliers with expertise in water and energy technology, and experience in modelling and pilots.
Market consultation 21 January 2026 A group of eight water authorities and STOWA have jointly established the Research and Development Programme Purification of the Future. During this five-year programme, a completely new wastewater treatment concept will be developed that must optimally meet all future requirements and ambitions of the water authorities regarding water quality, energy neutrality, climate neutrality, and circularity. To achieve this, various potential techniques will first be compared through modelling, in order to subsequently realize the most promising combination of techn
02Likely competitors
03Tender documents
04Legal themes that may be relevant here
05Frequently asked questions
What is the objective of the Purification of the Future programme?
How is the new treatment concept technically developed?
What is the scale of the pilot to be realized?
What is the purpose of the market consultation on 21 January 2026?
Automatically compiled from the official tender data and documents.
06Estimated value versus the market
€ 1,4 mln
€ 3,6 mln
€ 9,1 mln
Gegunde waarden in CPV 45 n=3179