Healthcare & Pharma tenders in Netherlands

249 open notices

Medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, consumables, diagnostics and hospital-services contracts from health departments and institutions.

Who buys healthcare & pharma in Netherlands

These are the organisations with the most healthcare & pharma notices open in Netherlands right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

Gemeente Breda · 6
Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG) · 5
Gemeente Apeldoorn, team Inkoop · 4
Gemeente Den Haag · 4
Gemeente Groningen · 3
Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) · 3
Gemeente Velsen · 3
SPO WIJ de Venen · 3

Healthcare & Pharma market snapshot

Since 10 Feb 2021, FreeTender has recorded 218 healthcare & pharma notices in Netherlands, 149 of them open today. The median bid window is 52 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears. Where buyers state a value, the median is EUR 2.7 million (106 priced notices).

Notices on record: 218
Open now: 149
Median bid window: 52 days
Median stated value: EUR 2.7 million

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Most active healthcare & pharma buyers

Gemeente Breda7 notices
Gemeente Den Haag6 notices
Ministerie van Defensie6 notices
Stichting Amsterdam UMC6 notices
World Bank project6 notices
Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG)5 notices
Maastricht UMC+4 notices
Gemeente Apeldoorn, team Inkoop4 notices
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM)4 notices
gemeente Sittard-Geleen4 notices

By sub-sector

Medical Equipment9 notices
Lab & Diagnostics5 notices
Medicines & Drugs2 notices

Where the work is

Groot-Rijnmond8 notices
Zuid-Limburg6 notices
Veluwe5 notices
Noord-Overijssel, Zuidwest-Overijssel4 notices
Veluwe, Achterhoek4 notices
Utrecht3 notices
Zuidoost-Friesland3 notices
Drenthe3 notices
Flevoland3 notices
Sudan3 notices

Procedures used

Open tender87 notices
Invitation to bid73 notices
Standing arrangement50 notices
Contract award6 notices
Expression of interest1 notices
Grant / funding call1 notices

Computed by FreeTender from the notices we hold, refreshed nightly. Monthly market reports.

How they buy

Across the healthcare & pharma notices we currently hold for Netherlands, the most common form is the dps, followed by open tender or invitation to bid and invitation to bid. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Healthcare and pharma procurement covers medicines, medical devices, diagnostics, hospital consumables and facility services. These tenders frequently require regulatory approvals, quality certifications (such as GMP or ISO), sample submission and cold-chain or delivery commitments. Confirm the specifications, batch and shelf-life requirements, and any mandatory registration before bidding.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.