About VendorManager.nl

Vendor management as a service — for organisations that have nobody for it

An organisation of 50 to 500 employees has the same IT contracts as a bank — Microsoft, a CRM, an accounting package, a logistics platform — but no procurement department that looks at them every week. VendorManager.nl is that department, as a subscription.

What it is

One way of working, a platform and a vendor manager

VendorManager.nl is a service of Digital Sourcing B.V. in Amsterdam. We map your vendors and contracts, monitor notice dates, evidence documents and price changes, and prepare every renewal with a file: what you use, what you pay against the list price, what is missing from the contract and what we would do. You decide; we execute.

The platform at app.vendormanager.nl is the tool, not the product. The product is that someone looks at it — and that this person can be replaced without you noticing anything.

Service since 2026Digital Sourcing B.V. · AmsterdamData in the EU

What we stand for

  • Independent — we sell no third-party software and receive no commissions from vendors
  • Transferable — fixed processes in the platform, a stand-in in the contract, your data always exportable
  • Honest about numbers — list prices with source and date, savings only once they are realised, no invented benchmarks
  • A person decides — software prepares, a vendor manager establishes the facts, you take the decision
  • A service, not a hire — no questions under the Dutch DBA Act (false self-employment), no dependency on one person on your payroll
The person behind it Bob Goosen

Bob Goosen

Founder of Digital Sourcing B.V. and the vendor manager behind VendorManager.nl. Twenty years on the buying side of IT, since 2019 as an independent interim IT procurement consultant and vendor manager at banks under DORA and the EBA guidelines, a grid operator with European tenders and an international retailer with vendors of considerable size. The common thread in all that work: concluding, monitoring and renegotiating contracts with IT vendors on time — at organisations where a missed notice date immediately costs money or draws a regulator's attention.

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Where this work was done

Clients are named here by sector; names in a conversation.

  • Major bank (2026) — IT procurement: contracting, cost analysis and handover to a new procurement model
  • International retailer (2026) — strategic contract and vendor management of three major data and software vendors
  • Merchant bank (2025–2026) — vendor management of outsourcing and software vendors under DORA; renewals, assessments and terminations
  • Public-sector bank (2024–2025) — contract and vendor management of strategic outsourcings under DORA and the EBA guidelines
  • Chemical distributor and installation company (2024) — inventorying and splitting IT contracts for a carve-out; recontracting the IT service provider and a new ERP
  • Grid operator and university of applied sciences (2020–2024) — European tenders for complex IT systems and services
Why as a service

What you get is not a person, but a way of working

Interim hire works for a bank with a procurement department. For an organisation of 50 to 500 employees it is too expensive and too dependent on one person. That is why VendorManager.nl is set up differently.

Fixed way of working

Every client goes through the same playbook: Nulmeting (baseline scan), register, renewal radar, quarterly report. That playbook lives in the platform, not in someone's head. Client five gets the same first four weeks as client one.

Stand-in

The service agreement states who takes over if the regular vendor manager is unavailable, with access that is tested every year. Your register, workflows and audit trail are yours and can be exported at any time.

Limited number of clients

Enough to prepare every renewal personally, not so many that you become a ticket number. If demand grows, the team grows with it, following the same playbook.

Get acquainted

Twenty minutes, then you know whether this fits

No presentation. We walk through your three largest contracts and say what we would do. If it does not fit, you will hear that too.

Digital Sourcing B.V. · Amsterdam · KvK 76477185 · digitalsourcing.nl for interim assignments and tenders.