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 Lithuania?
GlobalGov holds 82 research & development records from 42 distinct buying organisations in Lithuania. The most frequent publishers are Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninė Kauno klinikos (8 records); Lietuvos Respublikos aplinkos ministerija (5 records); Viešoji įstaiga Respublikinė Šiaulių ligoninė (5 records); Lietuvos Respublikos Aplinkos Ministerijos Aplinkos Projektų Valdymo Agentūra (4 records); Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas (3 records); Vilniaus universitetas (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 34% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninė Kauno klinikos | 8 | 9.8% |
| Lietuvos Respublikos aplinkos ministerija | 5 | 6.1% |
| Viešoji įstaiga Respublikinė Šiaulių ligoninė | 5 | 6.1% |
| Lietuvos Respublikos Aplinkos Ministerijos Aplinkos Projektų Valdymo Agentūra | 4 | 4.9% |
| Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas | 3 | 3.7% |
| Vilniaus universitetas | 3 | 3.7% |
What are research & development contracts worth in Lithuania?
24 of the 82 records publish a contract value. The median is $172,675 and the largest single published value is $805,680. By size, 7 under $100k, 17 between $100k and $1M. The remaining 58 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 | 29% |
| between $100k and $1M | 17 | 71% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research & development tenders in Lithuania?
Across the 31 Lithuania research & development notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 35. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (3.2%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are research & development tenders published in Lithuania?
Lithuania publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 32 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 32, spread across 39 separate months of activity since 6 January 2017. August is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 11 September 2026.
How does Lithuania compare with other research & development markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research & development market, Lithuania ranks 24th by number of records. The largest is Australia (13,059 records against 82 here). Within Lithuania itself, research & development is the 38th largest of the 52 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Lithuania research & development records on this page come from?
These 82 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (82). 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 Lithuania
Showing 9 of the 9 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Lithuania 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.
Lithuania – Laboratory reagents – 7751423 Reagentai patologijos diagnostikos tyrimams (atviras konkursas)
Lithuania – Laboratory reagents – 9509368 Baltymų elektroforezės tyrimus atliekančios automatizuotos laboratorinės sistemos nuoma (atviras konkursas)
Lithuania – Laboratory reagents – REAGENTAI IR PRIEMONĖS AUTOMATIZUOTAI IMUNOHISTOCHEMINIŲ REAKCIJŲ ATLIKIMO SISTEMAI (13046)
Lithuania – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – MULTIFUNKCINIS PLONŲ SLUOKSNIŲ ANALIZATORIUS NR. 4086/2026/FF
Lithuania – Laboratory reagents – AP-194915-1 Reagentai ir papildomos priemonės autoantikūnų ir kitų imunologinių tyrimų atlikimui su įrangos įsigijimu panaudos būdu (Atviras tarptautinis pirkimas)
Lithuania – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – Dinaminės šviesos sklaidos prietaisas, Nr. 1519/2026/GMC
Lithuania – Laboratory reagents – 9391778 Antikūnai (II dalis) (atviras konkursas)
Lithuania – Laboratory reagents – Reagentai ir priemonės infekcinių ligų molekulinei diagnostikai
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