Commissioned studies, methodology scoring and the right to publish
A commissioned study is bought for a decision the buyer has to make, and the tender usually states the decision. That matters because the strongest bids answer the decision rather than the question as written: they say what the study can and cannot establish, what the sample will support, and where the evidence will remain thin. Evaluation in this category is weighted heavily toward methodology, and a proposal that claims certainty the method cannot deliver is scored down by any competent panel.
The practical constraints are access and ethics. Studies that involve interviews, survey respondents or administrative data need approvals before fieldwork begins, and the timetable for those approvals is frequently longer than the fieldwork itself. Data protection obligations govern how personal data is collected, stored, anonymised and destroyed, and the contract normally names the roles of each party in handling it. A bid whose programme starts fieldwork immediately after award has usually not accounted for this.
Ownership and publication are negotiated terms with real consequences. Public buyers commonly take ownership of the report and the underlying data, reserve the right to publish, and require the raw data and code in a reusable form so the analysis can be reproduced. Researchers often want the right to publish independently, and the compromise is usually a delay period rather than a veto. Bidders should also read the clause on findings the buyer dislikes: the credible contracts protect the researcher's conclusions explicitly, and the absence of that protection tells you something about the commission.
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 research and studies in China?
GlobalGov holds 24 research and studies records from 10 distinct buying organisations in China. The most frequent publishers are World Bank -- China Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention, Preparedness And Response Project (4 records); World Bank -- China Plastic Waste Reduction Project (4 records); World Bank -- Gef7: Green And Carbon Neutral Cities (4 records); World Bank -- Climate Smart Management Of Grassland Ecosystems (3 records); World Bank -- Hubei Smart AND Sustainable Agriculture Project (3 records); World Bank -- Reduction And Phaseout Of Pfos In Priority Sectors (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 83% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| World Bank -- China Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention, Preparedness And Response Project | 4 | 17% |
| World Bank -- China Plastic Waste Reduction Project | 4 | 17% |
| World Bank -- Gef7: Green And Carbon Neutral Cities | 4 | 17% |
| World Bank -- Climate Smart Management Of Grassland Ecosystems | 3 | 12% |
| World Bank -- Hubei Smart AND Sustainable Agriculture Project | 3 | 12% |
| World Bank -- Reduction And Phaseout Of Pfos In Priority Sectors | 2 | 8.3% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research and studies tenders in China?
Across the 18 China research and studies notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 18 days. A quarter of them allowed 15 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 21. 4 of them (22%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.
How often are research and studies tenders published in China?
China published 7 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 24, spread across 11 separate months of activity since 24 November 2024. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 27 April 2026, 157 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does China compare with other research and studies markets?
Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research and studies market, China ranks 22nd by number of records. The largest is France (1,079 records against 24 here).
Where do the China research and studies records on this page come from?
These 24 records are collected from 1 official source: the World Bank (24). 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 2026-10-01.
Most recent Research and Studies tenders in China
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 24 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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