> Vital digital supplier.

They make the login-screen. And now for businesses there are like 5 providers of the login screen (that you HAVE to use in order to use govt websites): you have to choose one and pay like 40EUR/y in order to log in.

Calling a login screen vital is, yes, the truth.

Out-sourcing --and creating a market for-- the login screen is, to me, one of the most bizarre thing I've seen the Dutch govt do in recent years.

Oh, and if you out-source it, then I do not thing you should have a say in whom the contract. Either keep it in house, or out-source.

They contracted the market and now they want to control it as if it's in house.