The Province of Noord-Holland is seeking a service provider to collect and make available full-text articles from as many national and regional daily newspapers, trade journals, opinion magazines, and news sites as possible for internal distribution. The contractor must make a relevant selection daily, develop a tool that allows employees to select articles themselves and distribute this selection within the organization (employees, members of the Gedeputeerde Staten, members of the Provinciale Staten, and parliamentary group staff). Additionally, the contracting authority must obtain the right to distribute the content. Personal data (name, email, telephone, license plate, health, BSN, etc.) will be processed on behalf of the province, therefore the contractor must comply with GDPR requirements and provide a secure data management plan. The procedure is public, the type of assignment is services, and no CPV code has been specified.
Services · Open · European procedure
01What is being requested
The Province of Noord-Holland is seeking a service provider to collect and make available full-text articles from as many national and regional daily newspapers, trade journals, opinion magazines, and news sites as possible for internal distribution. The contractor must make a relevant selection daily, develop a tool that allows employees to select articles themselves and distribute this selection within the organization (employees, members of the Gedeputeerde Staten, members of the Provinciale Staten, and parliamentary group staff). Additionally, the contracting authority must obtain the right to distribute the content. Personal data (name, email, telephone, license plate, health, BSN, etc.) will be processed on behalf of the province, therefore the contractor must comply with GDPR requirements and provide a secure data management plan. The procedure is public, the type of assignment is services, and no CPV code has been specified.
The assignment includes providing full-text articles from as many national daily newspapers and regional daily newspapers in Noord-Holland as possible, supplemented by other relevant offline and online content, such as trade journals, opinion magazines, and news sites. Through this, the Contracting Authority obtains the right to distribute that content within the organization of the Contracting Authority (employees, members of the Gedeputeerde Staten, members of the Provinciale Staten, and parliamentary group staff). Additionally, the assignment includes the daily making of a further selection
02Exclusion grounds
- No specific exclusion grounds were extracted. In a European tender, the mandatory and discretionary grounds of art. 2.86/2.87 of the Dutch Procurement Act almost always apply — check the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD).
03Value in context
The contracting authority did not publish an estimated value — common for a large share of contracts. The EU threshold for diensten is € 221.000, for reference.
04Likely competitors
05Tender documents
06Legal themes that may be relevant here
07Frequently asked questions
What is the specific content of the assignment for press documentation?
For which target groups within the organization may the content be distributed?
What requirements apply to the processing of personal data?
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08Estimated value versus the market
€ 327K
€ 800K
€ 2,5 mln
Gegunde waarden in CPV 72 · diensten n=1436