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 Poland?
GlobalGov holds 2,705 financial advisory records from 1,516 distinct buying organisations in Poland. The most frequent publishers are Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (82 records); Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji w m. st. Warszawie S.A. (15 records); Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji w m.st. Warszawie S. A. zarejestrowane w Krajowym Rejestrze Sądowym w Sądzie Rejonowym dla m.st. Warszawy w Warszawie, XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sądowego pod numerem KRS 0000146138 (11 records); Gmina Miasta Tarnowa - Urząd Miasta Tarnowa (10 records); Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej (9 records); Gmina Miejska Przeworsk (8 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 5.0% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego | 82 | 3.0% |
| Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji w m. st. Warszawie S.A. | 15 | 0.6% |
| Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji w m.st. Warszawie S. A. zarejestrowane w Krajowym Rejestrze Sądowym w Sądzie Rejonowym dla m.st. Warszawy w Warszawie, XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sądowego pod numerem KRS 0000146138 | 11 | 0.4% |
| Gmina Miasta Tarnowa - Urząd Miasta Tarnowa | 10 | 0.4% |
| Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej | 9 | 0.3% |
| Gmina Miejska Przeworsk | 8 | 0.3% |
What are financial advisory contracts worth in Poland?
253 of the 2,705 records publish a contract value. The median is $690,278 and the largest single published value is $47.5M. By size, 5 under $100k, 160 between $100k and $1M, 87 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 2,452 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 | 5 | 2.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 160 | 63% |
| between $1M and $10M | 87 | 34% |
| above $10M | 1 | 0.4% |
How long do bidders get to respond to financial advisory tenders in Poland?
Across the 1,189 Poland financial advisory notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 37. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 5 (0.4%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are financial advisory tenders published in Poland?
Poland publishes about 6 notices a month in this category, 72 in the last twelve months. That is 88% fewer than the 593 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 1,467, spread across 61 separate months of activity since 21 May 2021. October 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 Poland compare with other financial advisory markets?
Among the 30 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable financial advisory market, Poland ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is France (9,415 records against 2,705 here). Within Poland itself, financial advisory is the 14th largest of the 73 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Poland financial advisory records on this page come from?
These 2,705 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (2,705). 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 Poland
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 Poland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Poland – Weather-related insurance services – Ubezpieczenie interesów majątkowych MPK S.A. w Krakowie na lata 2027-2029 z opcją na kolejny rok
Poland – Insurance services – GRUPOWE UBEZPIECZENIE PRACOWNIKÓW, ICH WSPÓŁMAŁŻONKÓW LUB PARTNERÓW ŻYCIOWYCH ORAZ PEŁNOLETNICH DZIECI PRACOWNIKÓW SZPITALA WIELOSPECJALISTYCZEGO IM DR. LUDWIKA BŁAŻKA W INOWROCŁAWIU
Poland – Insurance services – Ubezpieczenie majątku i odpowiedzialności cywilnej Miejskiego Zarządu Dróg w Bielsku-Białej w latach 2026-2027
Poland – Financial and insurance services – Wybór Pośredników Finansowych w celu wdrażania Produktów Finansowych w ramach realizacji Strategii Inwestycyjnej Zasobów Zwróconych Województwa Warmińsko-Mazurskiego na lata 2023-2033 – poręczenia
Poland – Banking services – Udzielenie zamówienia publicznego na linię gwarancyjną dla Spółek Grupy ENEA do kwoty 1,5 mld PLN na okres 2 lat
Poland – Liability insurance services – Usługa ubezpieczenia mienia i odpowiedzialności cywilnej Miejskiego Przedsiębiorstwa Oczyszczania w m.st. Warszawie sp. z o.o.”
Poland – Insurance services – USŁUGA UBEZPIECZENIA Szpitala Miejskiego w Rudzie Śląskiej Sp. z o.o.
Poland – Insurance services – „Ubezpieczenie mienia oraz sprzętu elektronicznego Uniwersyteckiego Szpitala Klinicznego w Poznaniu”
Poland – Insurance services – „Ubezpieczenie wszystkich ryzyk budowlano-montażowych (CAR/EAR) obejmujące inwestycje Spółki”
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