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Open raceNo supplier dominates: 3 different companies have won the last 3 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 3 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.
Summary
Machine-generated summaryLaboratory services are being procured under the title RC Labo onderzoeken gidsstoffen. The notice describes analyses of guide substances (gidsstoffen) to be carried out by RC Labo. The buyer is located in Belgium and the contract concerns laboratory testing services related to these guide substances.
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What this market pays
The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 214 awards for Architecture & engineering services in Belgium.
- Median award
- €323,203
- Middle half of past awards
- €187,622 to €668,819
TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.
Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.
The buyer
Full buyer profileAquafin NV
- notices in the register
- 317
- awards
- 91
- awarded in total
- €291.5M
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 60
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 16%
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 5%
Based on 81 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 4.2
- of those lots received a single tender
- 6%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 4%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIB Vinçotte vzw | 1 | Jun 2026 | |
| BODEMKUNDIGE DIENST VAN BELGIE vzw | 1 | Sep 2026 | |
| SWECO BELGIUM; BIOTECH ENGINEERING; ARCADIS BELGIUM; ANTEA BELGIUM; VIRO Herentals N.V.; MULTI.engineering Industrie, Bouw & Infra; Nuoro; TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING | 1 | Mar 2025 |
Based on 3 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
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Market context
TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) publishes no value for this notice, so it cannot be placed among the open notices of its sector. The official documents may state one.
- open now in Architecture & engineering services
- 20,884
- median open notice
- €486,618
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersBelgium · Architecture & engineering services
- different companies won awards here
- 393
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 6%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 264
Based on 473 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 5.1
- of those lots received a single tender
- 9%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 7%
- of the tenders came from another country
- 41%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
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