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 France?
GlobalGov holds 1,079 research and studies records from 841 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Nantes Métropole (11 records); Région Grand Est (6 records); Expertise France (5 records); Eurométropole de Strasbourg (5 records); Le Mans Métropole (5 records); Caisse Nationale Des Allocations Familiales (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 3.3% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Nantes Métropole | 11 | 1.0% |
| Région Grand Est | 6 | 0.6% |
| Expertise France | 5 | 0.5% |
| Eurométropole de Strasbourg | 5 | 0.5% |
| Le Mans Métropole | 5 | 0.5% |
| Caisse Nationale Des Allocations Familiales | 4 | 0.4% |
What are research and studies contracts worth in France?
428 of the 1,079 records publish a contract value. The median is $432,000 and the largest single published value is $89.6M. By size, 54 under $100k, 260 between $100k and $1M, 98 between $1M and $10M, 16 above $10M. The remaining 651 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 | 54 | 13% |
| between $100k and $1M | 260 | 61% |
| between $1M and $10M | 98 | 23% |
| above $10M | 16 | 3.7% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research and studies tenders in France?
Across the 561 France 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 30 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 6 (1.1%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are research and studies tenders published in France?
France publishes about 44 notices a month in this category, 526 in the last twelve months. That is 155% more than the 206 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 1,072, spread across 28 separate months of activity since 18 June 2021. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does France compare with other research and studies markets?
Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research and studies market, France ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within France itself, research and studies is the 42nd largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the France research and studies records on this page come from?
These 1,079 records are collected from 2 official sources: BOAMP (692), TED (387). 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 and Studies tenders in France
Showing 2 of the 2 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the France 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.
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