Urban planning services
This EU procurement concerns the hiring of urban planning and landscape advisory services for the Municipality of Nieuwkoop for a period of four years. The award is based on the best price-quality ratio with a strong weighting on quality.
Services · Open · European procedure
01What is being requested
Support for urban planning services and landscape architecture for the Municipality of Nieuwkoop for a period of four years.
With this tender, Nieuwkoop intends to contract urban planning services. Nieuwkoop wishes to ensure continuity in the field of urban planning and landscape, including the associated tasks for which it maintains management control. This involves a framework agreement with one urban planning firm supported by a landscape architect who has urban planning expertise at their disposal.
02Strategic insight
Ensure a Plan of Approach that is developed using SMART principles regarding the requested cooperation aspects. Select high-quality references that exactly meet the criteria for core competencies. Thoroughly prepare the presentation for the specific case study and the political context of Nieuwkoop.
03Points of attention
04Can I take part?
05Exclusion 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).
06Award criteria
Assessment of cooperation (A1), team composition (A2), and presentation (A3).
Assessment of the Plan of Approach on aspects such as expertise, environmental management, continuity, fixed point of contact, and client-specific expertise.
Assessment of the team structure and the roles/responsibilities at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.
Explanation of the bid and answering questions based on a reference and a case study, assessing experience with municipal processes, provincial argumentation, future-proofing, creativity, and expertise.
Assessment based on the four offered hourly rates using a square root formula.
07Process & timeline
08Value 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.
09Likely competitors
10Tender documents
11Legal themes that may be relevant here
12Frequently asked questions
What is the nature of the desired cooperation?
Which strategic themes are central to the area development?
On which principles is residential construction guided?
Automatically compiled from the official tender data and documents.
13Estimated value versus the market
€ 341K
€ 992K
€ 6,5 mln
Gegunde waarden in CPV 71 · diensten n=2713