Seminars — Public Procurement

Seminars and training events are procured on a large scale by public contracting authorities — for upskilling their own staff, for active labour market measures and for continuing professional development in regulated professions. Procurements cover in-house seminars, open seminar programmes and bespoke workshops on a wide range of topics.

Typical tenders in the seminars sector

• Delivery of seminars on procurement law and contract management
• In-house training on data protection and information security for a public authority
• Framework agreement for executive seminars for a state government administration
• Seminars on occupational safety and health
• Continuing education seminars for teachers on behalf of a state institute
• Workshops on diversity and intercultural competence for the public service

Relevant CPV codes

• 80500000 — Training services
• 80510000 — Specialist training services
• 80520000 — Training facilities
• 80570000 — Personal development training services

Challenges in tender discovery

Seminars are frequently awarded as framework agreements covering a broad range of topics. The individual seminar subjects are often only loosely outlined in the contract notice and are described in detail only in the tender documents. In addition, contracting authorities use various terms — "seminar", "workshop", "training", "course" or "training session".

Many seminar procurements fall below the EU thresholds and are published only on regional portals, which makes the market difficult to monitor.

How BOND helps with seminar tenders

• Topic-based search filters tenders by subject area and seminar content
• Sub-threshold monitoring also captures procurements below the EU thresholds
• Term matching recognises seminars under different labels
• Framework agreement tracking keeps you informed about new and expiring framework agreements

Related sectors

• Continuing professional development
• Coaching
• eLearning platforms
• Qualification programmes