Sustainment, spares and the contracts that keep equipment available
Defence logistics is bought as sustained availability rather than as a series of deliveries. The dominant contract shapes are long-term support arrangements in which a supplier is paid for an equipment fleet being ready to use -- measured as availability, sortie rates or vehicles fit for task -- and is left to decide how much spares stock, repair capacity and preventive work that requires. The bidder's commercial risk moves from supplying parts to predicting failures, which is why reliability data and its ownership are negotiated early.
The supply chain itself is a specified deliverable. Requirements typically cover codification and unique identification of every item, packaging and preservation standards for long storage or harsh transit, shelf-life management, and configuration control so that a part fitted matches the approved build standard of the platform. Counterfeit parts avoidance and traceability to an approved manufacturing source are explicit obligations, not assurances, and an inability to evidence provenance is a disqualifying finding rather than a corrective action.
Access to the competition is controlled before capability is assessed. Security clearance for personnel and facilities, national security exemptions that restrict participation to particular suppliers, export control and end-use licensing, and offset or industrial participation obligations all determine who may bid. Deployed support adds its own requirements: contractors operating alongside deployed forces need defined status, insurance and medical arrangements, and the contract has to say what happens when the operation moves or the theatre closes.
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 military logistics in Lithuania?
GlobalGov holds 108 military logistics records from 21 distinct buying organisations in Lithuania. The most frequent publishers are Gynybos resursų agentūra prie Krašto apsaugos ministerijos (23 records); Turto valdymo ir ūkio departamentas prie Lietuvos Respublikos vidaus reikalų ministerijos (14 records); Valstybės sienos apsaugos tarnyba prie Lietuvos Respublikos vidaus reikalų ministerijos (14 records); Viešojo saugumo tarnyba prie Vidaus reikalų ministerijos (13 records); Priešgaisrinės apsaugos ir gelbėjimo departamentas prie Vidaus reikalų ministerijos (10 records); Gynybos ResursŲ Agentūra Prie Kam (6 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 74% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gynybos resursų agentūra prie Krašto apsaugos ministerijos | 23 | 21% |
| Turto valdymo ir ūkio departamentas prie Lietuvos Respublikos vidaus reikalų ministerijos | 14 | 13% |
| Valstybės sienos apsaugos tarnyba prie Lietuvos Respublikos vidaus reikalų ministerijos | 14 | 13% |
| Viešojo saugumo tarnyba prie Vidaus reikalų ministerijos | 13 | 12% |
| Priešgaisrinės apsaugos ir gelbėjimo departamentas prie Vidaus reikalų ministerijos | 10 | 9.3% |
| Gynybos ResursŲ Agentūra Prie Kam | 6 | 5.6% |
What are military logistics contracts worth in Lithuania?
16 of the 108 records publish a contract value. The median is $324,000 and the largest single published value is $9.4M. By size, 2 under $100k, 9 between $100k and $1M, 5 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 92 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 | 2 | 12% |
| between $100k and $1M | 9 | 56% |
| between $1M and $10M | 5 | 31% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to military logistics tenders in Lithuania?
Across the 11 Lithuania military logistics 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 41. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are military logistics tenders published in Lithuania?
Lithuania published 6 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 36, spread across 46 separate months of activity since 26 May 2021. September 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 military logistics markets?
Among the 30 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable military logistics market, Lithuania ranks 15th by number of records. The largest is Germany (723 records against 108 here). Within Lithuania itself, military logistics is the 31st largest of the 52 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Lithuania military logistics records on this page come from?
These 108 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (108). 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 Military Logistics 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 military logistics notice in Lithuania is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Lithuania – Artillery – 60 mm minosvaidžio sistema
Lithuania – Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts – (PU-11198/23) Įvairūs kelių įrenginiai
Other procurement categories in Lithuania
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