Reading a general consulting notice before deciding whether to bid
Consulting notices that carry no further qualifier are the hardest in public procurement to assess, because the heading covers advisory work, programme delivery support, technical specialism and interim resource, which are four different businesses. The first task with any such notice is to find the deliverable: a report, a decision, a delivered change or a set of people on a rate card. Bidders who skip that step commonly price a study against terms written for a staffing arrangement, or the reverse.
Whatever the flavour, the evaluation structure is consistent. Technical quality is weighted above price more often than in goods procurement; the proposed method and the named individuals carry most of the score; and references are checked against comparable assignments rather than comparable clients. Frameworks and panels dominate access, so a significant share of the real competition happens at call-off stage, after the visible notice, between suppliers who are already admitted.
The terms that repay careful reading are about independence, substitution and what is left behind. Conflict of interest rules frequently bar the adviser from the implementation that follows. Key personnel clauses bind the supplier to the people it scored on. And knowledge transfer obligations -- documented handover, transfer of models and materials, a defined exit -- determine whether the buyer ends up with a capability or a dependency. Public buyers have become markedly stricter on all three, and bids that treat them as boilerplate are the ones that lose on technical score for reasons they never see.
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 consulting in Singapore?
GlobalGov holds 98 consulting records from 31 distinct buying organisations in Singapore. The most frequent publishers are Public Utilities Board (17 records); Info-communications Media Development Authority (9 records); Singapore Tourism Board (8 records); Singapore Land Authority (7 records); People's Association (6 records); Prime Minister's Office-Public Service Division (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 53% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Public Utilities Board | 17 | 17% |
| Info-communications Media Development Authority | 9 | 9.2% |
| Singapore Tourism Board | 8 | 8.2% |
| Singapore Land Authority | 7 | 7.1% |
| People's Association | 6 | 6.1% |
| Prime Minister's Office-Public Service Division | 5 | 5.1% |
What are consulting contracts worth in Singapore?
83 of the 98 records publish a contract value. The median is $175,010 and the largest single published value is $4.1M. By size, 25 under $100k, 47 between $100k and $1M, 11 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 15 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 | 25 | 30% |
| between $100k and $1M | 47 | 57% |
| between $1M and $10M | 11 | 13% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to consulting tenders in Singapore?
Across the 7 Singapore consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 28 days. A quarter of them allowed 18 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 43. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (14%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are consulting tenders published in Singapore?
Singapore published 18 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 19 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 49, spread across 43 separate months of activity since 7 April 2021. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.
How does Singapore compare with other consulting markets?
Among the 34 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable consulting market, Singapore ranks 19th by number of records. The largest is Australia (24,437 records against 98 here). Within Singapore itself, consulting is the 8th largest of the 11 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Singapore consulting records on this page come from?
These 98 records are collected from 1 official source: GeBIZ (98). 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 2026-10-12.
Most recent Consulting tenders in Singapore
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 98 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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