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 Serbia?
GlobalGov holds 27 management consulting records from 19 distinct buying organisations in Serbia. The most frequent publishers are Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure (4 records); World Bank -- Serbia Local Infrastructure And Institutional Development Project (3 records); European Union, represented by the European Commission on behalf of and for the account of Serbia (2 records); European Union, represented by the European Commission, on behalf of and for the account of Serbia (2 records); Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community (2 records); City Administration Vranje (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 52% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure | 4 | 15% |
| World Bank -- Serbia Local Infrastructure And Institutional Development Project | 3 | 11% |
| European Union, represented by the European Commission on behalf of and for the account of Serbia | 2 | 7.4% |
| European Union, represented by the European Commission, on behalf of and for the account of Serbia | 2 | 7.4% |
| Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community | 2 | 7.4% |
| City Administration Vranje | 1 | 3.7% |
What are management consulting contracts worth in Serbia?
20 of the 27 records publish a contract value. The median is $2.2M and the largest single published value is $10.8M. By size, 1 under $100k, 5 between $100k and $1M, 13 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 7 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 | 1 | 5.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 5 | 25% |
| between $1M and $10M | 13 | 65% |
| above $10M | 1 | 5.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to management consulting tenders in Serbia?
Across the 9 Serbia management consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 26 days. A quarter of them allowed 15 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (11%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are management consulting tenders published in Serbia?
Serbia published 3 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 13, spread across 20 separate months of activity since 13 July 2021. October is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 10 February 2026, 233 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Serbia compare with other management consulting markets?
Among the 66 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable management consulting market, Serbia ranks 62nd by number of records. The largest is France (14,828 records against 27 here). Within Serbia itself, management consulting is the 4th largest of the 4 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Serbia management consulting records on this page come from?
These 27 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (22), the World Bank (5). 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 Serbia
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 Serbia is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Serbia – Building services consultancy services – PIU Support Consultant
Serbia – Technical assistance services – Framework Contract for supporting Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine in carrying out policy and regulatory reforms in line with the priorities established in the Transport Community Treaty
Serbia-Backa Palanka: Integrated engineering services
Serbia-Kikinda: Energy-management services
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