CPV code 79000000-4Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
Public sector buyers use this code when a contract is for business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security. It is one of the 45 divisions, the broadest level of the CPV list.
What it covers
Codes beneath this one
More specific codes inside this one. Buyers pick one of these when a contract is narrower.
- 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 divisions
Each division covers a different area of public spending. Scan them to find where a contract you'd expect elsewhere really 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 use instead
Codes that appear on the same notices as this one. If you watch this code alone, this is where the work you miss tends to go.
- 73000000Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 71000000Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 98000000Other community, social and personal services
- 38000000Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
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Questions people ask
What is CPV code 79000000?
79000000-4 is the CPV code for business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security. It is one of the 45 divisions, the broadest level of the CPV list. 9 more specific codes sit beneath it.
Do buyers always use 79000000 for this work?
Not always. Buyers often pick a broader code, reuse last year's code, or file a mixed contract under its largest part. So searching by 79000000 alone misses work. Jonty reads each notice in full and matches it to what you do, whatever code the buyer chose.
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