79000000-4
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
The official CPV 2008 entry for 79000000-4. UK public sector buyers use this code to classify contracts on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales, Public Contracts Scotland and eTendersNI.
Tenders, last 12 months
12,342
Published value, last 12 months
£980.9B
Buyers publishing most against this code
- UK RESEARCH & INNOVATION582
- UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED191
- British Council134
- Department for Education119
- UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND117
Data as of 27 July 2026. Counted across Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales, Public Contracts Scotland and eTendersNI.
Codes beneath this one
More specific classifications inside this code. Buyers pick one of these when a contract has a narrow subject.
- 79100000Legal services
- 79200000Accounting, auditing and fiscal services
- 79300000Market and economic research; polling and statistics
- 79400000Business and management consultancy and related services
- 79500000Office-support services
- 79600000Recruitment services
- 79700000Investigation and security services
- 79800000Printing and related services
- 79900000Miscellaneous business and business-related services
Other top-level divisions
The other top-level CPV divisions. Each covers a different area of public sector spend, so scanning across them is how you find where a contract you would expect elsewhere actually sits.
- 03000000Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products
- 09000000Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy
- 14000000Mining, basic metals and related products
- 15000000Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
- 16000000Agricultural machinery
- 18000000Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories
- 19000000Leather and textile fabrics, plastic and rubber materials
- 22000000Printed matter and related products
- 24000000Chemical products
- 30000000Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
- 31000000Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
- 32000000Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
- 33000000Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
- 34000000Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
- 35000000Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
- 37000000Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories
- 38000000Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- 39000000Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products
- 41000000Collected and purified water
- 42000000Industrial machinery
- 43000000Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment
- 44000000Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)
- 45000000Construction work
- 48000000Software package and information systems
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Codes buyers commonly use instead
Codes that appear on the same notices as this one. If you monitor this code alone, these are where the work you are missing tends to land.
- 73000000Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 71000000Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 38000000Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- 98000000Other community, social and personal services
Working out which codes to monitor? Read the Jonty blog for how UK buyers actually classify contracts, and what that means for finding them.
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