Netherlands – Recruitment services – Europese aanbesteding inhuurbrokerdienstverlening

Kennisnet uses external professionals, including ICT specialists, advisors, project managers, and other supporting functions, to carry out its activities. The current framework agreement for brokerage services ends on 1 January 2027. To ensure the continuity of external personnel provision, a new European tender is being conducted to contract three brokerage service providers. Kennisnet is looking for brokerage service providers capable of delivering high-quality services in the areas of recruitment and selection, contracting, administrative handling, invoicing, compliance, and advice on external hiring. Kennisnet attaches great importance to transparency in rates and chains, compliance with laws and regulations, and active support in managing risks related to employment relationships. The assignment includes at least the following tasks: Recruiting, selecting, and offering suitable external professionals; Handling the contractual, administrative, and financial processing of external hiring; Managing risks in the areas of employment relationships, taxation, supply chain liability, and false self-employment; Providing transparency in pricing, chain composition, and margins; Advising Kennisnet on labour market developments, laws and regulations, rates, and suitable contract forms. During the term of the framework agreement, the brokerage service provider must provide at least the following services: Carrying out recruitment and selection activities for external professionals; Contracting and administratively handling candidates selected by Kennisnet; Facilitating mini-competitions and timely offering suitable candidates; Handling invoicing and financial settlement of deployed professionals; Providing management information and periodic reports; Supporting Kennisnet in complying with the DBA Act, Wtta, and other relevant laws and regulations; Guiding the transition of existing hiring and supporting an eventual exit to a successor broker. In addition to the operational service provision, the brokerage service provider fulfils an active advisory role throughout the term of the framework agreement. The broker is expected to advise, both when requested and proactively, on developments in the labour market, changes in laws and regulations, risks within the hiring chain, rates, shortages, and the organisation of hiring trajectories. This advisory function is integrated with the execution of the service provision and does not constitute a separate assignment.