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 Greece?
GlobalGov holds 1,035 management consulting records from 464 distinct buying organisations in Greece. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (73 records); International buyer (39 records); International buyer (18 records); International buyer (14 records); International buyer (10 records); International buyer (10 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 16% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 73 | 7.1% |
| International buyer | 39 | 3.8% |
| International buyer | 18 | 1.7% |
| International buyer | 14 | 1.4% |
| International buyer | 10 | 1.0% |
| International buyer | 10 | 1.0% |
What are management consulting contracts worth in Greece?
788 of the 1,035 records publish a contract value. The median is $737,626 and the largest single published value is $462.2M. By size, 9 under $100k, 489 between $100k and $1M, 249 between $1M and $10M, 41 above $10M. The remaining 247 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 | 1.1% |
| between $100k and $1M | 489 | 62% |
| between $1M and $10M | 249 | 32% |
| above $10M | 41 | 5.2% |
How long do bidders get to respond to management consulting tenders in Greece?
Across the 198 Greece management consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 38 days. A quarter of them allowed 35 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 43. 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 Greece?
Greece publishes about 8 notices a month in this category, 99 in the last twelve months. That is 15% fewer than the 116 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 374, spread across 61 separate months of activity since 14 May 2021. 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 Greece compare with other management consulting markets?
Among the 66 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable management consulting market, Greece ranks 18th by number of records. The largest is France (14,828 records against 1,035 here). Within Greece itself, management consulting is the 4th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Greece management consulting records on this page come from?
These 1,035 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (1,035). 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 Greece
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 1,035 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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