The job centres must ensure that unemployed people are interviewed about their situation and that they are given employability enhancement opportunities. The job centres can outsource parts of these responsibilities to external service providers.
The definition of external service providers is very wide, and the majority are private companies. However, the group of external service providers also includes educational institutions and unemployment insurance funds . The external service providers help the job centres provide unemployed people with an individual service which will help them back into employment again as fast as possible.
Tender and bid procedure
When the job centres use external service providers to help unemployed people come closer to the labour market, the task has to be announced through a tender and bid procedure. You can find more information on the tender and bid procedure on the National Labour Market Authority’s Danish website.