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 Latvia?
GlobalGov holds 340 management consulting records from 92 distinct buying organisations in Latvia. The most frequent publishers are VSIA Latvijas Valsts ceļi (80 records); AS "Latvijas valsts meži" (29 records); Valsts akciju sabiedrība "Valsts nekustamie īpašumi" (21 records); Gulbenes novada pašvaldība (12 records); Liepājas valstspilsētas pašvaldība (11 records); Jelgavas valstspilsētas pašvaldība (10 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 48% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VSIA Latvijas Valsts ceļi | 80 | 24% |
| AS "Latvijas valsts meži" | 29 | 8.5% |
| Valsts akciju sabiedrība "Valsts nekustamie īpašumi" | 21 | 6.2% |
| Gulbenes novada pašvaldība | 12 | 3.5% |
| Liepājas valstspilsētas pašvaldība | 11 | 3.2% |
| Jelgavas valstspilsētas pašvaldība | 10 | 2.9% |
What are management consulting contracts worth in Latvia?
100 of the 340 records publish a contract value. The median is $363,960 and the largest single published value is $19.9M. By size, 8 under $100k, 68 between $100k and $1M, 22 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 240 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 | 8 | 8.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 68 | 68% |
| between $1M and $10M | 22 | 22% |
| above $10M | 2 | 2.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to management consulting tenders in Latvia?
Across the 171 Latvia management consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 33 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 35. 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 Latvia?
Latvia published 22 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 70% fewer than the 73 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 190, spread across 57 separate months of activity since 11 June 2021. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 17 April 2026, 167 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Latvia compare with other management consulting markets?
Among the 66 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable management consulting market, Latvia ranks 28th by number of records. The largest is France (14,828 records against 340 here). Within Latvia itself, management consulting is the 11th largest of the 47 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Latvia management consulting records on this page come from?
These 340 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (340). 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 Latvia
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 Latvia is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Latvia – Development consultancy services – Sociālo pakalpojumu efektivitātes novērtēšanas sistēmas apraksta vispārīgās daļas izstrāde
Latvia – Development consultancy services – Ārpusģimenes aprūpes kvalitātes uzraudzības sistēmas apraksta izstrāde un aprobācija
Latvia – Building consultancy services – Vides pieejamības eksperta pakalpojumi Rīgas Mākslas un mediju tehnikumā
Latvia – Research and development consultancy services – Project application preparation services
Latvia – Engineering design services – Būvprojekta "Svētes upes gultnes pārtīrīšana, krastu erozijas novēršana un caurplūdes atjaunošana, un kompleksi pretplūdu pasākumi Tērvetes ielas rajonā, Jelgavā" izstrāde un autoruzraudzība
Latvia – Engineering design services for the construction of civil engineering works – Gājēju pāreju pārbūve ar luksofora objekta ierīkošanu būvniecības ieceres dokumentācijas izstrāde un autoruzraudzība
Latvia – Underwater photography services – Latvijas Republikas ūdenstilpju un ūdensteču dziļumu datu iegūšanas pakalpojums
Latvia – Electrical power systems design services – Elektroapgādes komercuzskaites pieslēgumu projekta izstrāde Zāles ielā 8, Limbažos, Limbažu novadā
Latvia – Building and facilities management services – Telpu un teritorijas uzkopšanas un apsaimniekošanas pakalpojumu sniegšana AS "Augstsprieguma tīlks"
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