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 Czech Republic?
GlobalGov holds 223 research & development records from 96 distinct buying organisations in Czech Republic. The most frequent publishers are Univerzita Karlova, Farmaceutická fakulta v Hradci Králové (14 records); Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci (11 records); Masarykova univerzita (7 records); Nemocnice Pardubického kraje, a.s. (7 records); Ústav Organické Chemie A Biochemie AV ČR, V. V. I. (7 records); Ředitelství Silnic A Dálnic S. P. (6 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 23% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Univerzita Karlova, Farmaceutická fakulta v Hradci Králové | 14 | 6.3% |
| Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci | 11 | 4.9% |
| Masarykova univerzita | 7 | 3.1% |
| Nemocnice Pardubického kraje, a.s. | 7 | 3.1% |
| Ústav Organické Chemie A Biochemie AV ČR, V. V. I. | 7 | 3.1% |
| Ředitelství Silnic A Dálnic S. P. | 6 | 2.7% |
What are research & development contracts worth in Czech Republic?
157 of the 223 records publish a contract value. The median is $137,382 and the largest single published value is $31.9M. By size, 65 under $100k, 84 between $100k and $1M, 5 between $1M and $10M, 3 above $10M. The remaining 66 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 | 65 | 41% |
| between $100k and $1M | 84 | 54% |
| between $1M and $10M | 5 | 3.2% |
| above $10M | 3 | 1.9% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research & development tenders in Czech Republic?
Across the 65 Czech Republic research & development notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 32 days. A quarter of them allowed 30 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 34. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 3 (4.6%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are research & development tenders published in Czech Republic?
Czech Republic publishes about 6 notices a month in this category, 74 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 83, spread across 56 separate months of activity since 16 July 2016. August is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 15 September 2026.
How does Czech Republic compare with other research & development markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research & development market, Czech Republic ranks 14th by number of records. The largest is Australia (13,059 records against 223 here). Within Czech Republic itself, research & development is the 32nd largest of the 61 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Czech Republic research & development records on this page come from?
These 223 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (223). 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.
Open Research & Development tenders in Czech Republic
Showing 10 of the 22 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Czech Republic market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
Czechia – Research, testing and scientific technical simulator – Technologická hardwarově-softwarová platforma s výpočetními a senzorickými moduly pro vývoj a výzkum automatizovaného řízení SAE L3/L4
Czechia – Ground investigation work – I/42 Brno, VMO Vinohrady - průzkumná štola
Czechia – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – FAF UK – Multifrekvenční bioimpedanční analyzátor + příslušenství
Czechia – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – FAF UK – dodávka hlubokomrazicího boxu
Czechia – Ground investigation work – Rámcová dohoda na GTP menších staveb pozemních komunikací 2023
Czechia – Laboratory services – Provádění kontrolních zkoušek objednatele/správce stavby na stavbách ŘSD
Czechia – Ground investigation work – I/42 Brno, VMO Vinohrady - průzkumná štola
Czechia – Ground investigation work – I/42 Brno, VMO Vinohrady - průzkumná štola
Czechia – Laboratory reagents – Dodávky diagnostických reagencií, kontrolního a spotřebního materiálu pro analyzátory Hydrasys, Interlab G 26 a Capillarys 3 OCTA
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