Municipality of Nieuwegein - Maintenance & Replacement OVL 2025-2029
Framework agreement for the maintenance and replacement of the public lighting in the municipality of Nieuwegein between 2025 and 2029. The award is based on the best price-quality ratio, where quality is translated into fictitious discounts.
Works · Open · European procedure
01What is being requested
It concerns the maintenance & replacement of the public lighting (columns, luminaires, and lamps) in the municipality of Nieuwegein for the period 2025-2029.
The works for the to-be-tendered Maintenance & Replacement OVL Municipality of Nieuwegein 2025-2029 mainly consist of: - works for the functional maintenance of the OVL; - repairing malfunctions and defects in OVL installations; - repairing damage caused by collision and vandalism to OVL installations; - cleaning and conserving lighting columns; - relocating, adding, and/or replacing lighting columns and/or luminaires; - removing and reinstating lighting columns for events, construction works, and similar; - reporting the performed works; - processing data in the Luminizer management
02Strategic insight
Ensure a very detailed substantiation of the bid sum to prevent checks for abnormal prices. Focus strongly on the quality aspects as these directly influence the evaluation price via fictitious discounts. Check whether all certificates such as ISO and VCA remain valid for at least three months after contract award.
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
The total value of the quality aspects to be deducted from the bid sum.
Fictitious discount based on the Plan of Approach aimed at extra quality.
Fictitious discount based on the Plan of Approach aimed at communication with the contracting authority.
Fictitious discount based on the interview.
The price is offered in accordance with the tender form and the tender schedule.
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 werken is € 5,54 M, for reference.
09Bidders in this segment
10Tender documents
11Legal themes that may be relevant here
12Frequently asked questions
What does the contract for the maintenance of the public lighting entail?
Which specific works are carried out regarding events and construction works?
Which management system is used for data processing?
What falls under the definition of Public Lighting (OVL) in this contract?
Automatically compiled from the official tender data and documents.
13Estimated value versus the market
€ 1,4 mln
€ 3,6 mln
€ 9,1 mln
Gegunde waarden in CPV 45 · werken n=3159