Schools and Universities Government Tenders in France

Buying for education estates, and why term dates govern everything

Education procurement is scheduled around an academic calendar that cannot move. Building work, refurbishment, furniture replacement and systems migration are concentrated into vacation periods, which compresses programmes, creates a peak in demand that constrains supplier capacity, and makes liquidated damages for late completion unusually meaningful: a school that cannot open is a problem no amount of money solves. Bidders should treat the handover date in these contracts as genuinely fixed.

Safeguarding governs who may be on site and is checked rather than declared. Anyone working where children or young people are present normally requires a criminal record check at the appropriate level, identity verification and often supervision arrangements, and the supplier is responsible for maintaining the records. Site rules around segregation of works areas, escorted access, photography and the use of personal devices are contractual. These obligations apply to a plumber as much as to a teacher, and they are the most common cause of a supplier being turned away at the gate.

The buying structures are unusual in two respects. Purchasing consortia and central bodies aggregate demand across many institutions, so a single award can serve hundreds of sites with widely varying needs, and bidders must price a service across that spread rather than for a typical member. And in higher education, research infrastructure and teaching equipment are frequently funded by grants with their own eligibility rules, reporting requirements and spend deadlines, which constrains what can be bought, from whom and by when in ways that are not visible from the specification alone.

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 schools and universities in France?

GlobalGov holds 1,492 schools and universities records from 1,000 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Région Grand Est (13 records); Société Publique Des Écoles Marseillaises (13 records); Région Provence-alpes-côte D'azur (12 records); Département De L'isère (11 records); Collectivite Territoriale De Guyane (9 records); Collectivite Territoriale DE Guyane (7 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 4.4% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are schools and universities contracts worth in France?

463 of the 1,492 records publish a contract value. The median is $809,730 and the largest single published value is $2.0B. By size, 26 under $100k, 231 between $100k and $1M, 157 between $1M and $10M, 49 above $10M. The remaining 1,029 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to schools and universities tenders in France?

Across the 624 France schools and universities notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 31 days. A quarter of them allowed 26 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 20 (3.2%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are schools and universities tenders published in France?

France publishes about 37 notices a month in this category, 446 in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 415 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 1,464, spread across 31 separate months of activity since 21 May 2021. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 29 April 2026, 155 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 schools and universities markets?

Among the 28 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable schools and universities market, France ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is Kenya (9,671 records against 1,492 here). Within France itself, schools and universities is the 36th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the France schools and universities records on this page come from?

These 1,492 records are collected from 2 official sources: BOAMP (1,368), TED (124). 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 Schools and Universities 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 schools and universities notice in France is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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