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devoted an article to the Testen voor Toegang ('Tests for Access') experiment, trials across the Netherlands which will grant people access to events, if they can provide proof of a negative rapid Covid-19 test result. The budget is enormous, but it is unclear what exactly is being investigated, how the contract was awarded and what the money is being spent on. Elisabetta Manunza, professor of International and European Public Procurement Law and affiliated with the Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP), argues in the British magazine that the contract should have been put out to public tender.

If the government outsources a task, it has to do a public tender.

She also spoke about this in . She is surprised about the construction in which the private Stichting Open Nederland receives a large budget (925 million euros according to Follow the Money), but the Ministry has no insight into what happens to that money.

Non-transparent

Manunza: "That is non-transparent and unprofessional and looks unlawful. She calls it "an example of how little transparency the Netherlands has with regard to tenders." She repeated this viewpoint in an item of the .