Never miss another framework agreement that locks you out for four years. Find, analyse and track IT public tenders across Belgium and Europe — in a single platform.
Framework agreements dominate IT procurement
Most major IT public contracts are awarded through framework agreements. A federal government department that needs IT consultants does not issue a separate contract for each project. It publishes a framework agreement for three or four years, selects a limited number of suppliers, and then calls them off — through mini-competitions or a cascade system — whenever a concrete need arises.
The consequence is stark: companies that are selected have a position for years. Companies that miss the publication sit on the sidelines for years. And the notice typically appears once, often on TED when the value exceeds the European threshold. The window to submit is short.
The challenge is not “finding more tenders”. The challenge is detecting every relevant framework agreement the moment it appears. TenderWolf matches new publications daily against your search profiles. Set your profiles to the CPV codes for IT services (72xxxxx), software (48xxxxx), your specialisation keywords — cloud, SAP, cybersecurity, data, networking — and select ‘framework agreement’ as the form type to monitor framework agreements specifically. You are alerted as soon as something relevant is published. Combine with NUTS regions and specific contracting authorities to refine your matching further — and create multiple profiles if you are active in different domains or regions.
Quality outweighs price
Evaluation criteria in IT tenders differ from other sectors. Where price is often decisive in construction, quality typically carries more weight in IT contracts: ratios of 60/40 or 70/30 in favour of quality are common.
What counts: the seniority, experience and certifications of proposed staff. Contracting authorities assess CVs individually. Methodology — Agile, DevOps, ITIL — must fit their environment. And references: comparable projects, at comparable government institutions, in a comparable technical setting.
This makes it all the more important to know exactly what is being weighted before you decide to bid. The AI Quickscan extracts award criteria and their weightings from the specification. You see immediately where points can be earned, whether the profile you can offer is competitive, and whether bidding is worth the investment.
Knowing who you are up against
The IT market in public procurement is more concentrated than it appears. The same names turn up at the major framework agreements. In TenderWolf, you can map that landscape in three ways.
From your competitors. Look up a competitor in Market Intelligence and you see their full tender history: which contracting authorities they are active at, which contracts they win, their win rate, and who their competitors are. Do this for your three or four main competitors and you have a current picture of the competitive field.
From the contracting authority. Look up a contracting authority in Market Intelligence and you see which IT suppliers are most active there — who wins, how often, and for which types of contracts. This is particularly relevant when you want to break into a new authority: you know who the established players are before you decide to bid.
From a specific tender. For a specific contract in your workflow, the Screening shows which companies have previously worked for that authority in the same domain, and which companies win similar contracts at other authorities. This reveals not just the local competition, but also players you may not have had on your radar.
Where opening reports are available, you also see submitted prices. This helps you calibrate your pricing strategy realistically — and decide whether a GO or NO GO is the smarter choice before you invest weeks in a bid.
IT knows no borders
Software development, systems integration and managed services are not location-dependent. That makes IT one of the sectors where cross-border bidding is most natural. Monitoring an IT framework agreement at the Belgian federal government and a comparable contract at a Dutch central government agency in the same dashboard, with the same tools — that is what TenderWolf is built for.
The platform covers Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and European above-threshold tenders (TED). One set of search profiles, the same alerts, the same analysis capabilities, regardless of the country.
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With the Free plan (€0/month) you get access to all public tenders in one European country of your choice. Unlimited search, daily alerts and 3,000 starter credits.
Additional countries are available from the Professional plan (€150/month).