Currently, Obbe Wassenaar is senior advisor on Public Procurement and Contracting. He works mainly for public authorities both nationally and internationally. Obbe Wassenaar has more than 20 years of experience in public procurement and contracting, mostly for PPP-projects and Innovation (i.a. Smart City) using Competitive Dialogue procurement processes.
Obbe was member of the Netherlands PPP Unit. This unit transformed the PPP environment of the Netherlands form 2 projects (2006) to 20 projects and almost 20 Billion Euro’s in 2012. High-speed Rail, the second largest Locks in the World and the second Port of Rotterdam are international know projects.
Obbe worked on 10 of these projects mostly from the feasibility phase until realization. Activities ranged from training of project teams, scoping of the projects, drafting contract- and procurement documents to guiding the procurement process and advise on contract management during realization phase of the project. Afterwards he advised on the procurement of several PPP projects ranging from Infrastructure, Office real estate, Harbor development, Textile waste treatment to Smart City Development.
Obbe was member of the taskforce for early contractor involvement and member of the expert pool for responsible purchasing of the Dutch government. In this respected he conducted more than 15 market consultations for large infrastructural works and services, conducted pre commercial procurements, best value procurements and competitive dialogues and advised more than 5 public authorities on responsible purchasing of infrastructure, services and goods.
He specialized in the scoping and procurement strategy for large projects and programs i.a. for the feasibility and engineering studies of several large infrastructure (PPP)-projects both on road infrastructure as on water infrastructure, he procured the service contract for financial PPP-services and the PPP capacity building for the government of the Netherlands and has executed several scoping missions internationally i.a. for the government of Sri Lanka and for Uganda and Myanmar.
Obbe Wassenaar was born in 1972 and after studying law in both Netherlands as in France started his career as a contract and real estate lawyer. Working for the Ministry of Infrastructure and the National Council of Construction Arbitration, the construction industry played a central part in the professional life of Obbe. He lives near Utrecht, is married and has two sons.