Published on: March 3, 2026, 14:29
Rijkswaterstaat has started the procurement for a new Integrator Control Chain.
This agreement is of great importance for the future-proof, uniform, and reliable delivery, management, and maintenance of resources (including building blocks) needed for the operation of tunnels, locks, and bridges from control centers for road and waterway traffic.
Growing demand and end of current agreement
The current activities fall under the Service Integrator Traffic Management (SI VM) agreement, which expires in May 2027.
Looking ahead to that date, the need for a central organization responsible for the delivery, management, and maintenance of building blocks (standardized, modular technical components used) in the control chain is growing. The increased demand is partly caused by an expected rise in deliveries from 2026.
A future-proof and uniform approach
With the new agreement, we focus on further professionalizing services for road and waterway traffic. Attention is given to future-proofing release management, ensuring delivery reliability, and organizing management and maintenance.
We aim for standardized, demonstrable, and predictable execution of tasks. Cooperation between various service providers of building blocks and civil engineering projects plays an important role in making the ordering, delivery, and integration process more efficient.
Together, these goals lead to reliable operation of tunnels, locks, and bridges on the main road network and national waterways.
Scope of the agreement
The scope of the new Integrator Control Chain includes work for deliveries, management, maintenance, and related services, such as advice regarding Life Cycle Management. The Integrator Control Chain ensures that the workplace in the control chain works and continues to work.
At the start of the agreement, this will involve the currently managed workplaces for operators and local server rooms and coordination of about 6 deliveries of building blocks in the control chain to civil engineering projects. This includes coordination of management and maintenance of these control chains.
The agreement will then grow further due to renewal tasks, with new control chains being delivered that must be managed and maintained. Attention is also given to necessary replacements of parts of the control chains, in the context of Life Cycle Management on the control chains.
Procurement and planning
This new agreement is procured through a European public procedure. Interested parties can register until March 30, 2026 via TenderNed .
The agreement is expected to be awarded before September 1, 2026. On the same date, the transition phase starts, in which the current service is carefully transferred to the new integrator. This phase is important to ensure continuity of service, especially considering the expiring SI VM agreement in May 2027.