A top score of 10 on the ‘circular economy’ award criterion helped decide a tender for renovating dolphins and guide works in the southern Netherlands. New Economy supplied the substantive case for this criterion, after which contractor DIMCO B.V. won the contract. The rating shows how explicitly embedding circular-economy principles in a bid can weigh heavily in the assessment.
Rijkswaterstaat structurally factors circularity into how it evaluates tenders, giving contractors a concrete incentive to work out the reuse of released materials as early as the bidding stage. A high score on this element turns the goal of circular working into a measurable advantage in the award process. Source: project page Circular procurement — timber reuse in (hydraulic) construction, New Economy (DIMCO / Rijkswaterstaat).