How public bodies contract for research they cannot specify in advance
Research procurement has a structural problem: the buyer is purchasing an answer to a question, and if the answer were known the contract would be unnecessary. Public bodies deal with this by buying in phases. A feasibility or concept phase is awarded to several suppliers in parallel, each paid a modest fixed sum; a subset is then funded to prototype; a smaller subset again reaches demonstration. Each phase is a competition among the survivors of the last, so a bidder should read the notice for the phase structure and the progression criteria before pricing anything.
Intellectual property is the term that decides whether the contract is worth winning. Arrangements range from full assignment of results to the buyer, through a licence to the buyer with the supplier retaining ownership and the right to commercialise elsewhere, to background and foreground IP splits that must be catalogued before work starts. Development-focused schemes often deliberately leave ownership with the supplier so that a market can form around the result, while procurement of research for internal use tends toward assignment. The two produce very different bid economics.
Evaluation weights the proposal's scientific and technical merit, the team's record, and the credibility of the risk assessment, and it rewards candour about what might fail. Deliverables are reports, data and demonstrations rather than products, so acceptance criteria are written around defined technical readiness levels or measurable milestones. Where human participants, animals, personal data or dual-use technology are involved, ethical approval and export control clearance are conditions precedent with their own timetables, and they are a common cause of a project starting months after award.
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 & development in Cyprus?
GlobalGov holds 20 research & development records from 10 distinct buying organisations in Cyprus. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (9 records); International buyer (2 records); International buyer (2 records); Public Works Department (1 record); The Cyprus Institute Ltd (1 record); University of Cyprus (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 80% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 9 | 45% |
| International buyer | 2 | 10% |
| International buyer | 2 | 10% |
| Public Works Department | 1 | 5.0% |
| The Cyprus Institute Ltd | 1 | 5.0% |
| University of Cyprus | 1 | 5.0% |
What are research & development contracts worth in Cyprus?
12 of the 20 records publish a contract value. The median is $359,640 and the largest single published value is $1.5M. By size, 1 under $100k, 10 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 8 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 1 | 8.3% |
| between $100k and $1M | 10 | 83% |
| between $1M and $10M | 1 | 8.3% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research & development tenders in Cyprus?
Across the 7 Cyprus research & development notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 22 days. A quarter of them allowed 20 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 32. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (14%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are research & development tenders published in Cyprus?
Cyprus published 4 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 5, spread across 17 separate months of activity since 21 February 2017. October is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 11 May 2026, 143 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Cyprus compare with other research & development markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research & development market, Cyprus ranks 35th by number of records. The largest is Australia (13,059 records against 20 here). Within Cyprus itself, research & development is the 27th largest of the 27 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Cyprus research & development records on this page come from?
These 20 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (20). 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 & Development tenders in Cyprus
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 20 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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