Plan-making, evidence base and the consultation that cannot be shortened
Planning commissions are procured around a statutory process with fixed stages, and the timetable belongs to the process rather than to the supplier. Plan preparation runs through evidence gathering, options, draft publication, formal consultation, examination by an independent person and adoption, each with its own consultation period and its own opportunity for objection. A bid whose programme assumes a linear run from brief to document has not read the statutory sequence, and the supplier will carry the cost of the difference.
The evidence base is the bulk of the work and is usually let as a set of specialist studies: population and household projections, housing need, employment land, retail and town centre capacity, transport modelling, flood risk, landscape and heritage character, infrastructure capacity and viability appraisal. Each must be defensible at examination, because an evidence document that cannot withstand cross-examination takes the plan down with it. Buyers therefore weight the credentials of named specialists heavily and frequently require attendance at examination as part of the commission.
Consultation and engagement are specified deliverables with their own standards. Reaching groups who do not normally respond, providing accessible materials, publishing representations and demonstrating how they were considered, and maintaining an auditable record are all requirements, and failure on them is a common ground of legal challenge. Masterplanning and design code commissions sit alongside plan-making with a different skill mix, and buyers increasingly require digital outputs -- mapped policy, machine-readable constraints -- rather than documents 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 urban planning in France?
GlobalGov holds 32 urban planning records from 32 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Avenir Developpement (Spl) (1 record); CA PAU Bearn Pyrenees (1 record); CA Vitre Communaute (1 record); Communauté D'agglomération Du Bassin De Brive (1 record); Communauté Urbaine D'arras (1 record); Communauté d'agglomération de l'Albigeois (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 19% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Avenir Developpement (Spl) | 1 | 3.1% |
| CA PAU Bearn Pyrenees | 1 | 3.1% |
| CA Vitre Communaute | 1 | 3.1% |
| Communauté D'agglomération Du Bassin De Brive | 1 | 3.1% |
| Communauté Urbaine D'arras | 1 | 3.1% |
| Communauté d'agglomération de l'Albigeois | 1 | 3.1% |
What are urban planning contracts worth in France?
6 of the 32 records publish a contract value. The median is $3.4M and the largest single published value is $20.1M. By size, 2 between $100k and $1M, 3 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 26 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 | 2 | 33% |
| between $1M and $10M | 3 | 50% |
| above $10M | 1 | 17% |
How long do bidders get to respond to urban planning tenders in France?
Across the 12 France urban planning notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 29 days. A quarter of them allowed 22 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 33. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (8.3%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are urban planning tenders published in France?
France published 17 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 32, spread across 9 separate months of activity since 11 January 2024. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 25 March 2026, 190 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the France urban planning records on this page come from?
These 32 records are collected from 2 official sources: BOAMP (30), TED (2). 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 Urban Planning 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 urban planning notice in France is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
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