Why after-sales coverage decides these awards more often than price
Agricultural machinery is bought to be used a long way from a workshop, in a season that does not wait. That turns after-sales support into the dominant evaluation criterion in most of these competitions. Buyers ask for the location of dealer or service points relative to where the equipment will operate, guaranteed response times in the working season, the stock of fast-moving spares held in country, and a commitment to parts availability for a stated number of years. A machine that is cheaper and unsupported is scored as what it is: an asset that will stop and stay stopped.
Specification is written in performance terms rather than by model -- power output, implement compatibility and hitch category, working width, tank or hopper capacity, ground clearance, fuel consumption -- because the buyer wants competing manufacturers to be able to answer. Where the equipment is for smallholder or cooperative use, the specification frequently favours simplicity and field repairability over sophistication, and bidders who offer the most advanced machine can lose to one that a village mechanic can maintain.
Two practical requirements decide delivery. Operator and maintenance training, delivered in the working language with manuals to match, is normally a priced obligation rather than a courtesy, and acceptance can depend on it. And field demonstration is a real evaluation stage: buyers commonly require shortlisted machines to be demonstrated under local soil and crop conditions, which excludes bidders who cannot get a machine into the country for a trial. Delivery terms to rural destinations, including offloading at sites without handling equipment, belong in the price rather than in a later claim.
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 agricultural equipment in Lithuania?
GlobalGov holds 131 agricultural equipment records from 38 distinct buying organisations in Lithuania. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (27 records); Kauno miesto savivaldybės administracija (8 records); Šiaulių apskaitos centras (8 records); Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės administracija (6 records); Alytaus miesto savivaldybės administracija (5 records); Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybės administracija (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 45% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 27 | 21% |
| Kauno miesto savivaldybės administracija | 8 | 6.1% |
| Šiaulių apskaitos centras | 8 | 6.1% |
| Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės administracija | 6 | 4.6% |
| Alytaus miesto savivaldybės administracija | 5 | 3.8% |
| Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybės administracija | 5 | 3.8% |
What are agricultural equipment contracts worth in Lithuania?
47 of the 131 records publish a contract value. The median is $281,157 and the largest single published value is $22.8M. By size, 7 under $100k, 32 between $100k and $1M, 6 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 84 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 | 7 | 15% |
| between $100k and $1M | 32 | 68% |
| between $1M and $10M | 6 | 13% |
| above $10M | 2 | 4.3% |
How long do bidders get to respond to agricultural equipment tenders in Lithuania?
Across the 52 Lithuania agricultural equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 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 agricultural equipment tenders published in Lithuania?
Lithuania published 8 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 60, spread across 42 separate months of activity since 23 March 2020. April 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 Lithuania compare with other agricultural equipment markets?
Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable agricultural equipment market, Lithuania ranks 25th by number of records. The largest is France (4,262 records against 131 here). Within Lithuania itself, agricultural equipment is the 28th largest of the 52 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Lithuania agricultural equipment records on this page come from?
These 131 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (131). 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 Agricultural Equipment tenders in Lithuania
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 agricultural equipment notice in Lithuania is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Lithuania – Services incidental to forestry – Gamtotvarkinės paslaugos
Lithuania – Planting and maintenance services of green areas – Panevėžio miesto gėlynų įrengimo, teritorijų apželdinimo ir priežiūros paslaugos
Lithuania – Forest inventory services – Želdinių inventorizacija (Atviras konkursas (tarptautinis))
Lithuania – Hire of agricultural machinery with operator – Machinery rental services
Lithuania – Parks maintenance services – Centrinio parko priežiūros paslaugų pirkimas
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