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Based on 5 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 summaryThe University Medical Center Groningen is holding a European open tender for the supply of stents and balloon catheters, coronary endoprostheses intended for the UMCG Heart Centre. The contract covers the delivery of these medical devices for cardiac care at the hospital in the Netherlands.
Description
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Can I bid?
- Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
- The notice is written in Dutch.
- Certificates from another EU country? Check the equivalents on eCertis
Official source
Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)
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What this buyer has paid before
Based on 8 comparable contracts this buyer awarded in this sector over the last 4 years.
- Median award
- €1
- Middle half of past awards
- €1 to €690,000
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.
Most recent awards
- Nederland - Apparatuur en instrumentarium voor OK - Operatiemicroscopen
- Nederland - Medische apparatuur, farmaceutische artikelen en artikelen voor lichaamsverzorging - Vrijwillige transparantie vooraf voor de aanschaf van twee dispensingmodules en aanpassing hot cells t.b.v. radiofarmaceutisch bereidingsproces
- Nederland - Medische apparatuur, farmaceutische artikelen en artikelen voor lichaamsverzorging - Vrijwillige transparantie vooraf voor de aanschaf van twee dispensingmodules en aanpassing hot cells t.b.v. radiofarmaceutisch bereidingsproces
- Nederland - Diverse geneesmiddelen - Vrijwillige transparantie Yttrium-90 microsferen ten behoeve van Selectieve Interne RadioTherapie (SIRT) €1,200,000
- Nederland - Diverse geneesmiddelen - Vrijwillige transparantie Yttrium-90 microsferen ten behoeve van Selectieve Interne RadioTherapie (SIRT) €1,200,000
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 profileUniversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG)
- notices in the register
- 58
- awards
- 28
- awarded in total
- €7.7M
Who wins its contracts
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 42%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sirtex Medical Europe GmbH | 1 | €1.2M | Dec 2025 |
| Carl Zeiss B.V. | 1 | Jun 2026 | |
| Medtronic Trading NL B.V. | 1 | Nov 2025 | |
| Orfit Industries | 1 | Oct 2025 | |
| Stichting Von Gahlen Holding | 1 | Jan 2026 |
Based on 5 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
14 open tenders right now
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 Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals
- 11,293
- median open notice
- €136,622
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersNetherlands · Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals
- different companies won awards here
- 141
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 8%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 72
Based on 200 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)
- 2.8
- of those lots received a single tender
- 20%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 9%
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.
Similar tenders
Open now
49
days left
€1,200,000
est. value
26
days left
€13,200,500
est. value
Open elsewhere in Europe
Matched by meaning across languages, from the notices' own words: the same kind of contract, open now in another country.
Awarded before
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