Subject: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure Rijkswaterstaat investigation into the setup of Navigation Aids in Europe
From: "Zuurdeeg, Woendrik (RWS VWM)" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:32:06 +0000

Dear sir/madam,

I am Woendrik Zuurdeeg and I work in the role of Procurement Advisor for the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure, Rijkswaterstaat, department of Navigation Aids.
Your contact information was present in a 2018 market investigation performed for Rijkswaterstaat.
We are investigating ways to optimize our services and would like to know more about the situation and setup of our peers in Europe.

Could you spare a couple minutes to answer our questions? If preferred, we could also set up a phone call or digital meeting.

1.    Is your organization an official part of the government?

2.    How many navigation aid objects (buoys) do you have/manage?

3.    How many different types of buoys do you have/manage?

4.    Are the designs intellectual property of the government?

5.    What parts, if any, of the supply chain are outsourced to non-government parties?

  *   Manufacturing
  *   Assembly
  *   Maintenance on land
  *   Maintenance on water
  *   Transport
  *   Placement

6.    How many open European public tenders do you publish?

7.    How many parties sign up on your public tenders?

8.    Open question: what topics are you facing challenges in?

9.    Could we contact you for additional questions in the future?

We are looking forward to your response,

Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards,

Woendrik Zuurdeeg

Inkoopadviseur Vaarwegmarkeren

Rijkswaterstaat Verkeer- en Watermanagement
Wilhelminakade 9 | 3072 AP Rotterdam

M 06 2385 7753
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www.rijkswaterstaat.nl<http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/>