What a public body is actually buying when it buys consulting
A management consulting contract is unusual in public procurement because the thing being bought does not exist when it is priced. The buyer is purchasing a method and a named team, and the evaluation reflects that: technical scores in this category lean heavily on the proposed approach and on the curricula vitae of the individuals who will do the work, with price often weighted lower than it is for goods. That makes the key personnel clause the sharpest term in the contract. Bidders who win on the strength of named partners and then substitute juniors are the reason most of these contracts now bind the supplier to the individuals who were scored, and make replacement subject to the buyer's consent.
The commercial shape is usually a framework or a multi-supplier panel rather than a single award. The tender establishes rate cards by grade and a set of service areas, and individual assignments are then called off against it, sometimes competitively between the panel members. A bidder who reads only the headline notice and not the call-off mechanism can win a place on a panel worth nothing, because being admitted to a framework guarantees the right to compete and not a single day of work.
Two requirements catch first-time bidders. The first is conflict of interest: a firm that advises on a strategy is frequently barred from bidding for the implementation it recommends, and the declaration is made at bid stage, not at award. The second is deliverable-based payment. Public buyers increasingly refuse open-ended time and materials, tying payment to accepted reports, decision points or measured benefits, which moves the risk of an overrunning study onto the consultant. Reading the payment schedule before the scope is the faster way to understand what a given assignment will really cost to deliver.
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 management consulting in Austria?
GlobalGov holds 590 management consulting records from 234 distinct buying organisations in Austria. The most frequent publishers are Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen-Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft (62 records); Österreichische Gesundheitskasse (18 records); Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen- Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft (17 records); Magistrat der Stadt Wien - Magistratsabteilung 34 (15 records); ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG (11 records); Stadt Wien - Wiener Wohnen (9 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 22% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen-Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft | 62 | 11% |
| Österreichische Gesundheitskasse | 18 | 3.1% |
| Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen- Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft | 17 | 2.9% |
| Magistrat der Stadt Wien - Magistratsabteilung 34 | 15 | 2.5% |
| ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG | 11 | 1.9% |
| Stadt Wien - Wiener Wohnen | 9 | 1.5% |
What are management consulting contracts worth in Austria?
99 of the 590 records publish a contract value. The median is $842,400 and the largest single published value is $194.4M. By size, 9 under $100k, 43 between $100k and $1M, 40 between $1M and $10M, 7 above $10M. The remaining 491 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 | 9 | 9.1% |
| between $100k and $1M | 43 | 43% |
| between $1M and $10M | 40 | 40% |
| above $10M | 7 | 7.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to management consulting tenders in Austria?
Across the 116 Austria management consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are management consulting tenders published in Austria?
Austria publishes about 6 notices a month in this category, 70 in the last twelve months. That is 39% fewer than the 115 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 316, spread across 61 separate months of activity since 5 October 2020. May 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 management consulting markets?
Among the 66 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable management consulting market, Austria ranks 21st by number of records. The largest is France (14,828 records against 590 here). Within Austria itself, management consulting is the 6th largest of the 44 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Austria management consulting records on this page come from?
These 590 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (590). 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 Management Consulting 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 management consulting notice in Austria is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Austria – Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security – ÖBAG: Beratungsdienstleistungen - Los 1: Rechtsberatungsleistungen
Austria – Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security – BMASGPK: Pay Attention! Geschlechterrollen, Arbeitsbewertung und Bezahlung gemeinsam denken
Austria – Advisory architectural services – Inhaltliche Konzeption und Umsetzung einer digitalen Plattform (D/E) zur Darstellung der Koordinierungsstelle Baukultur des Bundes
Austria – Engineering studies – Planungsdienstleistungen für eine Grundwasserpotenzialstudie im Innsbrucker Talboden inklusive einer Rahmenvereinbarung
Austria – Engineering design services for the construction of civil engineering works – Rahmenvereinbarung über Leitungsplanungen diverser Sparten
Austria – business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security – MSG-messestandlogistik 2025 (MLG2025)
Austria – Surveying services – Rahmenvereinbarung für Vermessungsarbeiten - Erstellung von Planunterlagen- Brandschutz in den Jahren 2025 bis 2032
Austria – Engineering-design services for traffic installations – Planungsleistungen für die Teilelektrifizierung der Zillertalbahn zwischen Jenbach und Mayrhofen
Austria – Business organisation services – ÖGK - Telemedizin
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