Market consultation for checking abuse of student housing grants
DUO's market consultation focuses on mapping the possibilities of using home visits to verify the living situation of students receiving a student housing grant. The objective is to determine whether there is abuse of the grant and to establish a basis for a potential EU procurement. The consultation requests insight into the market, the interest of service providers, and the feasibility of various approaches. DUO intends to use the responses to compile a concrete proposal for the procurement, including the form of the procurement, the scope of the work, and the required expertise. The consultation is a first step in shaping a transparent, efficient, and privacy-conscious inspection procedure.
Services · European procedure
01What is being requested
DUO's market consultation focuses on mapping the possibilities of using home visits to verify the living situation of students receiving a student housing grant. The objective is to determine whether there is abuse of the grant and to establish a basis for a potential EU procurement. The consultation requests insight into the market, the interest of service providers, and the feasibility of various approaches. DUO intends to use the responses to compile a concrete proposal for the procurement, including the form of the procurement, the scope of the work, and the required expertise. The consultation is a first step in shaping a transparent, efficient, and privacy-conscious inspection procedure.
DUO is an executive organization of the Dutch central government in the field of education. DUO is considering an EU procurement for home visits, with the aim of inspecting the living situation of students receiving a student housing grant. The result of these home visits is to conclude whether the student housing grant is being abused. It is not yet exactly known in what manner or form the EU procurement will take place. Based on the responses and answers to this market consultation, it will be decided, among other things, what the best next steps are. Furthermore, DUO aims to use this market
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 purpose of this market consultation?
What is the intended assignment of the home visits?
How will the results of the market consultation be used?
Automatically compiled from the official tender data and documents.
08Estimated value versus the market
€ 200K
€ 640K
€ 3,0 mln
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