Registration, quality assurance and the shape of a medicines contract
A medicines tender is decided on quality assurance before it is decided on price. Bidders must show that the product is authorised or registered for use in the destination market, that it is manufactured at a site holding current good manufacturing practice certification, and -- for many donor-funded and essential medicines programmes -- that the product or its manufacturer appears on a recognised prequalification list. These are documentary conditions of admissibility assessed against the specific product and manufacturing site offered, and a change of site after award is a contractual event, not an administrative one.
Products are specified by international non-proprietary name, strength and dosage form so that generics compete openly, with pharmacopoeial standards cited for quality. Delivery conditions carry as much weight as the product: a minimum proportion of shelf life remaining on arrival, batch certificates of analysis, tamper-evident and correctly labelled packaging in the required language, and unbroken cold chain with temperature monitoring for products that need it. A consignment that arrives with too little shelf life left is routinely rejected at the buyer's cost to the supplier.
The commercial structure is usually a framework at agreed unit prices with call-offs against forecast rather than firm volume, because demand depends on disease patterns and programme funding. That places emphasis on lead times, on the supplier's obligation to hold or replenish stock, and on what happens in a shortage -- allocation, substitution and notification terms are increasingly explicit. Recall capability is tested rather than assumed: buyers ask how quickly a batch can be traced and withdrawn from every facility it reached.
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 pharmaceuticals in Lithuania?
GlobalGov holds 364 pharmaceuticals records from 99 distinct buying organisations in Lithuania. The most frequent publishers are VšĮ Vilniaus universiteto ligoninė Santaros klinikos (PV) (31 records); VšĮ Vilniaus universiteto ligoninė Santaros klinikos (25 records); Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninė Kauno klinikos (22 records); Viešoji įstaiga CPO LT (16 records); Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninė Kauno klinikos (PV) (12 records); UAB „Toksika“ (9 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 32% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VšĮ Vilniaus universiteto ligoninė Santaros klinikos (PV) | 31 | 8.5% |
| VšĮ Vilniaus universiteto ligoninė Santaros klinikos | 25 | 6.9% |
| Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninė Kauno klinikos | 22 | 6.0% |
| Viešoji įstaiga CPO LT | 16 | 4.4% |
| Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninė Kauno klinikos (PV) | 12 | 3.3% |
| UAB „Toksika“ | 9 | 2.5% |
What are pharmaceuticals contracts worth in Lithuania?
105 of the 364 records publish a contract value. The median is $357,025 and the largest single published value is $70.0M. By size, 20 under $100k, 63 between $100k and $1M, 16 between $1M and $10M, 6 above $10M. The remaining 259 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 | 20 | 19% |
| between $100k and $1M | 63 | 60% |
| between $1M and $10M | 16 | 15% |
| above $10M | 6 | 5.7% |
How long do bidders get to respond to pharmaceuticals tenders in Lithuania?
Across the 178 Lithuania pharmaceuticals notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 33 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 2 (1.1%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are pharmaceuticals tenders published in Lithuania?
Lithuania publishes about 8 notices a month in this category, 94 in the last twelve months. That is 71% more than the 55 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 207, spread across 58 separate months of activity since 30 November 2016. March is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 18 August 2026.
How does Lithuania compare with other pharmaceuticals markets?
Among the 39 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable pharmaceuticals market, Lithuania ranks 17th by number of records. The largest is Germany (4,115 records against 364 here). Within Lithuania itself, pharmaceuticals is the 12th largest of the 52 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Lithuania pharmaceuticals records on this page come from?
These 364 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (364). 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 Pharmaceuticals 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 pharmaceuticals notice in Lithuania is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Lithuania – Pharmaceutical products – Vaistinių preparatų užsakymai per CPO LT elektroninį katalog (2-as pirkimas) (21139)
Lithuania – Pharmaceutical products – Vaistinių preparatų užsakymai per CPO LT elektroninį katalogą (1 - as pirkimas) (21138)
Lithuania – Reagents and contrast media – Reagents and aids for specific protein studies with the device (11746) (open tender)
Lithuania – Chemical products for the oil and gas industry – (VPP-938) Odorantas ir konteinerių patika bei remontas
Lithuania – Gases – 32648 Techninės dujos
Lithuania – Reagents for electrophoresis – Purchase of diagnostic kits and reagents for molecular testing
Lithuania – Gases – Specialiųjų ir kitų dujų, naudojamų laboratorinių tyrimų atlikimui ir (ar) kitiems tikslams, pirkimas
Lithuania – Diagnostic kits – Patologiniams anatominiams ir histologiniams tyrimams naudojamų diagnostinių rinkinių, papildomų vienkartinių priemonių, metalo gaminių bei reagentų pirkimas
Lithuania – Chemical reagents – Laboratory reagents and other supplies for general university activities
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