Grants, contracts and what a social outcome specification demands
Community development is one of the few areas where the buyer must first decide whether it is buying anything at all. A grant funds an organisation to pursue its own purpose and is governed by conditions and reporting; a contract buys a specified service and is governed by performance. The distinction determines the legal route, the tax treatment and the degree of control the funder has, and notices in this category often blur it. Reading which instrument is on offer is the first thing a bidder should establish.
Specifications are written around outcomes for people rather than outputs, and the measurement framework is the hard part of the bid. Buyers ask how a change in someone's circumstances will be evidenced, over what period, with what baseline and what attribution, and they increasingly require data collection that respects the participant's consent and privacy while still proving the result. Payment is often partly contingent on those measures, which transfers real financial risk to organisations that frequently have very little reserve.
Evaluation weights local legitimacy in a way that other categories do not. Existing relationships with the community, governance that includes the people served, the ability to reach groups that statutory services do not, and co-design of the service with participants are scored explicitly. That pushes buyers toward consortium models in which a lead organisation contracts and smaller specialists deliver, and it makes the flow-down terms -- payment timing, risk allocation and reporting burden on the subcontracted partners -- a matter the tender increasingly asks about directly.
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 community development in Lithuania?
GlobalGov holds 63 community development records from 17 distinct buying organisations in Lithuania. The most frequent publishers are Muitinės departamentas prie Lietuvos Respublikos finansų ministerijos (14 records); Gynybos resursų agentūra prie Krašto apsaugos ministerijos (9 records); Viešoji įstaiga CPO LT (8 records); Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybės administracija (5 records); Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės administracija (4 records); Gynybos ResursŲ Agentūra Prie Kam (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 68% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Muitinės departamentas prie Lietuvos Respublikos finansų ministerijos | 14 | 22% |
| Gynybos resursų agentūra prie Krašto apsaugos ministerijos | 9 | 14% |
| Viešoji įstaiga CPO LT | 8 | 13% |
| Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybės administracija | 5 | 7.9% |
| Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės administracija | 4 | 6.3% |
| Gynybos ResursŲ Agentūra Prie Kam | 3 | 4.8% |
What are community development contracts worth in Lithuania?
12 of the 63 records publish a contract value. The median is $543,213 and the largest single published value is $62.2M. By size, 10 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 51 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 | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 10 | 83% |
| between $1M and $10M | 1 | 8.3% |
| above $10M | 1 | 8.3% |
How long do bidders get to respond to community development tenders in Lithuania?
Across the 22 Lithuania community development notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 34 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 38. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are community development tenders published in Lithuania?
Lithuania published 2 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 26, spread across 34 separate months of activity since 25 May 2021. March 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 community development markets?
Among the 26 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable community development market, Lithuania ranks 18th by number of records. The largest is Italy (1,272 records against 63 here). Within Lithuania itself, community development is the 40th largest of the 52 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Lithuania community development records on this page come from?
These 63 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (63). 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 Community Development 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 community development notice in Lithuania is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Lithuania – Tailoring services – Individualaus siuvimo paslauga
Lithuania-Kaišiadorys: Civic-amenity services
Other procurement categories in Lithuania
Community Development procurement in other markets
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