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 Greece?
GlobalGov holds 54 research & development records from 39 distinct buying organisations in Greece. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (4 records); International buyer (4 records); International buyer (3 records); International buyer (2 records); International buyer (2 records); International buyer (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 31% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 4 | 7.4% |
| International buyer | 4 | 7.4% |
| International buyer | 3 | 5.6% |
| International buyer | 2 | 3.7% |
| International buyer | 2 | 3.7% |
| International buyer | 2 | 3.7% |
What are research & development contracts worth in Greece?
47 of the 54 records publish a contract value. The median is $321,555 and the largest single published value is $17.4M. By size, 6 under $100k, 31 between $100k and $1M, 9 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 7 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 | 6 | 13% |
| between $100k and $1M | 31 | 66% |
| between $1M and $10M | 9 | 19% |
| above $10M | 1 | 2.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research & development tenders in Greece?
Across the 26 Greece research & development notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 38 days. A quarter of them allowed 33 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 48. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are research & development tenders published in Greece?
Greece publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 24 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 26, spread across 27 separate months of activity since 28 December 2016. August is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.
How does Greece compare with other research & development markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research & development market, Greece ranks 26th by number of records. The largest is Australia (13,059 records against 54 here). Within Greece itself, research & development is the 46th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Greece research & development records on this page come from?
These 54 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (54). 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 Greece
Showing 8 of the 8 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Greece 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.
Greece – Laboratory reagents – ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΤΗΡΙΑ ΑΙΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΥ ΜΕ ΤΑΥΤΟΧΡΟΝΗ ΠΑΡΑΧΩΡΗΣΗ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΥ ΕΞΟΠΛΙΣΜΟΥ
Greece – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – ΔΙΕΘΝΗΣ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΟΙΚΤΗΣ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΑΣ ΜΕΣΩ ΕΣΗΔΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΓΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΕΞΟΠΛΙΣΜΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΥ ΚΟΙΤΑΣΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΓΕΩΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΘ (ΑΡΙΘΜΟΣ ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗΣ 701/2026)
Greece – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – ΔΙΕΘΝΗΣ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΟΙΚΤΗΣ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΑΣ ΜΕΣΩ ΕΣΗΔΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΓΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΕΞΟΠΛΙΣΜΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΥ ΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΥΤΙΚΗΣ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΥΤΙΚΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΘ (ΑΡΙΘΜΟΣ ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗΣ 712/2026)
Greece – Research and development consultancy services – Παροχή υπηρεσιών προστασίας της διανοητικής ιδιοκτησίας και εμπορικής αξιοποίησης των τεχνολογιών του ΔΠΘ
Greece – Laboratory reagents – ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΤΗΡΙΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΑΛΩΣΙΜΩΝ ΥΛΙΚΩΝ ΜΕ ΣΥΝΟΔΟ ΕΞΟΠΛΙΣΜΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟ
Greece – Laboratory reagents – ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΤΗΡΙΩΝ ΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΥ
Greece – Laboratory reagents – ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΑΝΑΛΩΣΙΜΩΝ ΥΛΙΚΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΜΗΧΑΝΗΜΑ ΚΥΤΤΑΡΑΦΑΙΡΕΣΗΣ SPECTRA OPTIA ΤΗΣ ΑΙΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΚΗΣ ΚΛΙΝΙΚΗΣ
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