About Qwasp B.V.
Qwasp B.V. is the organisational core of everything published under the QWASP name: the legal entity, the governance layer, the contracting party, and the holder of shared services and IP governance.
What sits at this level
- Legal. Qwasp B.V. is the contracting party for client engagements.
- Governance. One governance model applies across all business lines.
- Contracting & invoicing. Handled centrally through Qwasp B.V.
- Shared services. Infrastructure, method and identity foundations are shared where it makes sense (see Technology & infrastructure).
- IP governance. Brand and method ownership (e.g. the registered OBTRASEC® brand) sits with Qwasp B.V.
How QWASP is organised
Qwasp B.V. is not itself a service line. Underneath it sit four business lines: organisational capabilities, not separate legal entities, each with its own brand or platform identity:
A note on terminology: legal entity, business line, brand, method and delivery platform are deliberately kept distinct in how QWASP describes itself. See Established IP & Platforms and each business-line page for how the terms map onto real brands and systems.
Our story
Qwasp built the Monitor Volwasseneneducatie: registration, testing and impact measurement for Dutch municipalities. In 2021, 16 of the 24 regions worked with it (sources). What drives us is simple: giving people who struggle with basic skills a clear route, and showing what a programme achieves.
We have also supported organisations in their IT for nearly thirty years. We moved with them through the major technology shifts: from virtualisation and data virtualisation, through large-scale migrations and the move from on-premises to the cloud, to new technology such as Web3. In this way we helped them grow into organisations with a mature IT environment, and we have always stood by them through change and through threats. That this collaboration lasts shows in clients coming back, now in the form of resilience audits and board training.
We work with a small core team and scale up with specialists and partners when the work calls for it. For larger public assignments we are glad to work in a consortium: for learning platforms and testing in the public sector, and through OBTRASEC for the protection of borders, perimeters and long-distance infrastructure. That is where our disciplines strengthen each other. Behind Qwasp stands an owner who remains personally responsible, also after delivery. We are now rebuilding the organisation step by step, in the EU, with four disciplines that come together under one governance standard: Audit, Education, Research and Security. That is how we can responsibly take on larger projects as well.
Who we are
Qwasp B.V. is a small company that is still being built up. The founder and director carries final responsibility for every engagement and works with a small team of specialists, each with a defined role:
- Governance, audit and method
- Technical operations and infrastructure
- Design and communication
- Privacy, as data protection officer
For each engagement we put together the team the work requires, supplemented by partners where needed. Names, CVs and certificates are shared on request.
Discretion and honesty
We are a small company that is still being built up, and we present ourselves that way. Our work touches information security, personal data and sometimes confidential projects, so we only name a client with their written consent. Instead of big words, we show what you can verify yourself: registrations, trade marks, the code of conduct we follow, and how we work. What is still in development is labelled Target.
Facts and registrations →