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 Czech Republic?
GlobalGov holds 93 research and studies records from 39 distinct buying organisations in Czech Republic. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (30 records); Ministerstvo vnitra (6 records); Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně (4 records); International buyer (4 records); Ministerstvo zemědělství (3 records); International buyer (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 54% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 30 | 32% |
| Ministerstvo vnitra | 6 | 6.5% |
| Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně | 4 | 4.3% |
| International buyer | 4 | 4.3% |
| Ministerstvo zemědělství | 3 | 3.2% |
| International buyer | 3 | 3.2% |
What are research and studies contracts worth in Czech Republic?
81 of the 93 records publish a contract value. The median is $202,737 and the largest single published value is $7.5M. By size, 17 under $100k, 51 between $100k and $1M, 13 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 12 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 | 17 | 21% |
| between $100k and $1M | 51 | 63% |
| between $1M and $10M | 13 | 16% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research and studies tenders in Czech Republic?
Across the 86 Czech Republic research and studies notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are research and studies tenders published in Czech Republic?
Czech Republic publishes about 7 notices a month in this category, 80 in the last twelve months. That is 700% more than the 10 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 91, spread across 14 separate months of activity since 27 April 2022. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 3 April 2026, 181 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Czech Republic compare with other research and studies markets?
Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research and studies market, Czech Republic ranks 11th by number of records. The largest is France (1,079 records against 93 here). Within Czech Republic itself, research and studies is the 46th largest of the 61 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Czech Republic research and studies records on this page come from?
These 93 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (93). 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 Czech Republic
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical research and studies notice in Czech Republic is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
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