Independence, regulation and how advisory mandates are scoped
Financial advisory work for public bodies is bought under a constraint that shapes every bid: the adviser must be, and be seen to be, independent of the transaction it is advising on. Conflict of interest declarations are made at bid stage and cover the whole firm and its affiliates, not the proposed team, and an existing relationship with a likely counterparty is commonly disqualifying. Firms that also arrange or underwrite are frequently excluded from advising on the same transaction, which is why this category has a distinct supplier population from banking services.
Mandates are scoped around a decision with a date attached -- a funding structure, a valuation, a business case, a restructuring, a concession -- and are almost always phased so the buyer can stop. Fees mix a fixed element for defined deliverables with capped time-based charges for support through a process whose length depends on third parties. Success fees are viewed cautiously in public procurement because they align the adviser with completion rather than with the buyer's interest in walking away, and where they are permitted they are usually capped and disclosed.
Evaluation rests on the individuals and on regulatory standing. Buyers check that the firm holds the authorisations its jurisdiction requires for the activity in question, that professional indemnity cover matches the value of the decisions being advised on, and that the named team has done comparable transactions rather than comparable sectors. Because the deliverable is frequently a document that will be relied on by lenders, auditors or a legislature, the terms governing reliance, liability caps and the right to publish the advice are negotiated as hard as the fee.
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 financial advisory in France?
GlobalGov holds 9,415 financial advisory records from 6,594 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are sce departemental incendie et secours (26 records); Caisse DES Depots (14 records); Paris Habitat - OPH (14 records); caisse des depots (14 records); ville d'antibes Juan-Les-Pins (12 records); Idelians (11 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 1.0% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| sce departemental incendie et secours | 26 | 0.3% |
| Caisse DES Depots | 14 | 0.1% |
| Paris Habitat - OPH | 14 | 0.1% |
| caisse des depots | 14 | 0.1% |
| ville d'antibes Juan-Les-Pins | 12 | 0.1% |
| Idelians | 11 | 0.1% |
What are financial advisory contracts worth in France?
2,775 of the 9,415 records publish a contract value. The median is $683,640 and the largest single published value is $27.0B. By size, 94 under $100k, 1,598 between $100k and $1M, 928 between $1M and $10M, 155 above $10M. The remaining 6,640 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 | 94 | 3.4% |
| between $100k and $1M | 1,598 | 58% |
| between $1M and $10M | 928 | 33% |
| above $10M | 155 | 5.6% |
How long do bidders get to respond to financial advisory tenders in France?
Across the 3,459 France financial advisory notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 42 days. A quarter of them allowed 35 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 56. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 3 (0.1%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are financial advisory tenders published in France?
France publishes about 28 notices a month in this category, 340 in the last twelve months. That is 84% fewer than the 2,080 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 4,692, spread across 62 separate months of activity since 26 February 2021. July 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 France compare with other financial advisory markets?
Among the 30 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable financial advisory market, France ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within France itself, financial advisory is the 5th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the France financial advisory records on this page come from?
These 9,415 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (9,400), BOAMP (15). 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 Financial Advisory tenders in France
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 financial advisory notice in France is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
France – Accident and health insurance services – Prestation d'assurance des risques statutaires pour les collectivités et établissements affiliés et non affiliés au CDG 54 et pour lui-même.
France – Accident and health insurance services – REGIMES DE PROTECTION SOCIALE COMPLEMENTAIRE DU PERSONNEL DE L’ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG POUR LA COUVERTURE DES RISQUES DECES, INCAPACITE TEMPORAIRE DE TRAVAIL, INVALIDITE PERMANENTE ET REMBOURSEMENT DE FRAIS DE SANTE
France – Accident and health insurance services – Marché de services relatif à une prestation d'assurance des risques statutaires pour les collectivités et établissements affiliés et non affiliés au Centre de Gestion et pour lui-même
France – Insurance services – Marché d’assurances pour les besoins de la Métropole Européenne de Lille et de SOURCEO
France – Financial market regulatory services – Consolidated Tape Provider selection procedure - OTC derivatives
France – Insurance services – Conventions de participation pour la mise en œuvre de couvertures complémentaires de prévoyance et de frais de santé au profit des agents de Brest Métropole et de la ville de Brest.
France – Damage or loss insurance services – CHU DE BREST - SITE DE BOHARS - CONSULTATION ASSURANCE CONSTRUCTION DANS LE CADRE DE L'OPERATION DE RECONSTRUCTION DE L'HOPITAL PSYCHIATRIQUE DE BOHARS
France – Insurance services – Prestations de services d’assurance de Business France
France – Insurance services – Marché d'assurance pour les opérations de construction d'une crèche de 90 berceaux et de requalification du groupe scolaire Langevin
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