Research and Studies Government Tenders in Spain

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 Spain?

GlobalGov holds 85 research and studies records from 70 distinct buying organisations in Spain. The most frequent publishers are Generalitat de Catalunya, Agencia Catalana del Agua del Departamento de Territorio, Vivienda y Transición Ecológica (4 records); Secretaría General de la Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (4 records); Fundació Institut Català d'Investigació Química (3 records); Infraestructures de la Generalitat de Catalunya, SAU (3 records); Gobierno Vasco - Economía, Trabajo y Empleo (2 records); Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias S.A. (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 21% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are research and studies contracts worth in Spain?

77 of the 85 records publish a contract value. The median is $498,647 and the largest single published value is $38.4M. By size, 1 under $100k, 53 between $100k and $1M, 20 between $1M and $10M, 3 above $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.

How long do bidders get to respond to research and studies tenders in Spain?

Across the 77 Spain 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 Spain?

Spain publishes about 6 notices a month in this category, 71 in the last twelve months. That is 545% more than the 11 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 83, spread across 14 separate months of activity since 22 November 2021. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 25 May 2026, 129 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does Spain compare with other research and studies markets?

Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research and studies market, Spain ranks 12th by number of records. The largest is France (1,079 records against 85 here). Within Spain itself, research and studies is the 56th largest of the 71 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Spain research and studies records on this page come from?

These 85 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (85). 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 Spain

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 Spain is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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