Campaign work, public information and how agencies are actually selected
Communications work for public bodies divides into campaigns with a behavioural objective and continuing communications support, and they are tendered differently. A campaign is scoped around a measurable change -- uptake of a service, awareness of a deadline, a safety behaviour -- with research, creative development, media planning and evaluation as distinct workstreams that may be let to different suppliers. Continuing support is usually a framework with a retained team and a rate card, called off as needs arise.
Selection is normally a two-stage process in which a shortlist responds to a live brief, and the response is judged on strategic insight and creative approach as much as on the finished idea. Buyers increasingly limit the amount of speculative creative work they require, and some pay an honorarium for it, because unlimited free pitching narrows the field to agencies that can afford to lose. Named team continuity is a contractual term for the same reason it is in consulting: the pitch team and the delivery team are expected to be the same people.
Two mechanics are specific to this category. Media buying is usually separated from creative and audited, with the agency required to disclose rebates, volume discounts and any principal trading so that the buyer knows whether it is paying a fee or a margin. And evaluation is contractual: public campaigns are expected to report against defined measures with a pre-agreed baseline, not against impressions delivered. Accessibility of materials, publication in required languages, and clear separation between public information and anything that could be read as political promotion are compliance requirements with real consequences.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys communications pr in Austria?
GlobalGov holds 99 communications pr records from 57 distinct buying organisations in Austria. The most frequent publishers are Verein Lokale Agenda 21 in Wien zur Förderung von Bürgerbeteiligungsprozessen (11 records); Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen- Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft (4 records); Land Vorarlberg (4 records); Arbeitsmarktservice Steiermark (3 records); Austrian Power Grid AG (3 records); Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen-Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 28% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Verein Lokale Agenda 21 in Wien zur Förderung von Bürgerbeteiligungsprozessen | 11 | 11% |
| Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen- Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft | 4 | 4.0% |
| Land Vorarlberg | 4 | 4.0% |
| Arbeitsmarktservice Steiermark | 3 | 3.0% |
| Austrian Power Grid AG | 3 | 3.0% |
| Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen-Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft | 3 | 3.0% |
What are communications pr contracts worth in Austria?
15 of the 99 records publish a contract value. The median is $648,000 and the largest single published value is $1.7M. By size, 10 between $100k and $1M, 5 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 84 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 10 | 67% |
| between $1M and $10M | 5 | 33% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to communications pr tenders in Austria?
Across the 13 Austria communications pr notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are communications pr tenders published in Austria?
Austria published 19 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 27% more than the 15 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 67, spread across 45 separate months of activity since 11 June 2021. June is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Austria compare with other communications pr markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable communications pr market, Austria ranks 17th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (6,822 records against 99 here). Within Austria itself, communications pr is the 27th largest of the 44 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Austria communications pr records on this page come from?
These 99 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (99). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Communications Pr tenders in Austria
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical communications pr notice in Austria is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Austria – Business and management consultancy and related services – FHK - Konsulent Standortentwicklung Flughafen Klagenfurt
Austria – Business and management consultancy and related services – Rahmenvereinbarung Berater Pool PM
Austria – Public relations consultancy services – Rahmenvereinbarung Medientraining
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