DUTCH GROUNDS
Go Dutch.Go Gulf.
Your company.Our sales team in the Gulf.No office of your own.
We are your commercial representation in the Middle East. With 27 local specialists, our own contact centre and 16 years of experience, we find clients, open doors at companies and governments, arrange meetings and follow up on opportunities. Even while you stay in the Netherlands.
From first contact to signed contract.
Amsterdam
Riyadh
You get one point of contact in the Netherlands, a team on the ground in the Gulf, three tender specialists, a contact centre that keeps following up and a plan you can measure every month.
Quotes & tenders
3
quote and tender specialists in the region.
They introduce your company to private and public requests, and run your entire tender process together with local specialists. From first request to award.
- 01Introduction to private requests
- 02Introduction to public tenders
- 03Prequalification and registration with clients
- 04Quote and tender documents to local standards
- 05Clarification rounds, submission and negotiation
- 06Guidance through award and contract
Wake-up call
The Gulf is already building. Without you.
Not because your work falls short. But because nobody there calls you, introduces you or follows up after the show.
Why Dutch Grounds
We walked this route ourselves.
Dutch Grounds was born from one frustration: good Dutch companies that can't get anyone to the table there. Solid ground under your feet is what we now build for others.
Trade across water. That's where we come from too.
- 2017
We went ourselves
Into the Gulf with know-how, plans and ambition. But without the right people at the table.
- The lesson
A good meeting is not yet a contract
Between a fine first meeting and real work lies a gap. That's where almost everyone gets stuck.
- Since then
What we lacked, we built
Local relationships, presence and knowledge of how it really works there. Dutch Grounds now opens that route to other Dutch companies.
- Common
Common grounds
A trading spirit, seafaring and bridge-building: business starts on shared ground. We find that first.
Go straight to what you need.
- 01How we workYour team, the cycle around a show and your first 90 days.
- 02Netherlands IslandOne Dutch pavilion per show, and the trade show calendar.
- 03PackagesKade, Koers and Overzee. Build your own route.
- 04Sectors & newsSix sector families and news from the Gulf.
- 05Who we are33 people in five teams, from marketing to tenders.
Already guided
Companies we helped into the Gulf
Movares
DEME
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Governments, developers and show organisers
Arjaan
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