Calculate what shifting from indirect hiring to direct sourcing, for example through the Freelance Direct Sourcing Portal, could deliver. Based on your own assumptions.
Are you an MSP or supplier? Enter the project sourcing spend of your clients or portfolio, not your own revenue.
Your total annual spend on external resources for projects, through intermediaries or direct, in euros. You can type amounts higher than the slider allows.
After additional recurring sourcing, management and portal costs, but before one-off implementation costs.
The slider runs from 0 to 30%. For an unfavourable scenario, you can type a value between −100% and 100%.
Leave empty if you don't know them yet.
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Your result over three years, the payback time of your one-off costs, a scenario table based on your own spend and concrete next steps. You also receive everything as a PDF in your inbox.
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Share of direct sourcing 10%: SIA expects direct sourcing to reach 8% of large companies' spend on external workers within two years. 10% is a slightly more ambitious scenario.
Source: SIA, June 2026
Net savings 10%: intermediaries in the Netherlands often charge a margin of 15 to 25% per hour worked. 10% is more cautious, because direct sourcing has its own costs too.
Source: Planet Interim, 90,000 interim assignments in 2023, via Consultancy.nl (March 2024)
Direct sourcing providers report savings of 15 to 40% compared with agencies. Those figures have not been independently researched, so we do not use them as a default.
Source: AMS, 2026
Project sourcing spend: the default amount is an example. Enter your own amount.
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