Connectivity contracts, service levels and the cost of moving supplier
Telecommunications is bought as a service with an engineering tail. The specification names sites, bandwidths, resilience levels and the technology where it matters, but the terms that decide the contract are the service levels: availability expressed as a percentage of the year, time to respond and time to restore by fault severity, planned maintenance windows, and service credits that apply automatically rather than on request. Buyers with operationally critical sites specify diverse routing and separate points of entry, which is a physical requirement a bidder must survey rather than assert.
The commercial shape is a term contract with installation and recurring charges separated, and the installation side carries most of the delivery risk. Wayleaves and access agreements with landowners, civil works to bring a duct to a building, and third-party network lead times sit largely outside the supplier's control, so tenders normally require a site-by-site delivery plan rather than a blanket lead time. A bid that quotes a standard installation period across a portfolio of sites has not surveyed them.
Migration is the hidden cost and the most common reason a buyer stays with an incumbent it is unhappy with. Moving a connected estate involves parallel running, number and address portability, reconfiguration at each site and a cutover per location, and the tender should state who pays for it. Increasingly buyers also specify supply chain security assurance, lawful interception obligations, data residency for traffic and metadata, and end-of-contract obligations that allow the next supplier to take over without the estate being rebuilt again.
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 telecommunications in Lithuania?
GlobalGov holds 340 telecommunications records from 105 distinct buying organisations in Lithuania. The most frequent publishers are VšĮ Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija (35 records); Viešoji įstaiga CPO LT (18 records); Kertinis valstybės telekomunikacijų centras (13 records); Lietuvos Respublikos užsienio reikalų ministerija (12 records); Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės administracija (12 records); UAB „Ignitis grupės paslaugų centras“ (11 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 30% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VšĮ Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija | 35 | 10% |
| Viešoji įstaiga CPO LT | 18 | 5.3% |
| Kertinis valstybės telekomunikacijų centras | 13 | 3.8% |
| Lietuvos Respublikos užsienio reikalų ministerija | 12 | 3.5% |
| Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės administracija | 12 | 3.5% |
| UAB „Ignitis grupės paslaugų centras“ | 11 | 3.2% |
What are telecommunications contracts worth in Lithuania?
76 of the 340 records publish a contract value. The median is $304,247 and the largest single published value is $13.3M. By size, 11 under $100k, 45 between $100k and $1M, 18 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 264 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 | 11 | 14% |
| between $100k and $1M | 45 | 59% |
| between $1M and $10M | 18 | 24% |
| above $10M | 2 | 2.6% |
How long do bidders get to respond to telecommunications tenders in Lithuania?
Across the 132 Lithuania telecommunications notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 33 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 telecommunications tenders published in Lithuania?
Lithuania published 12 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 85% fewer than the 78 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 167, spread across 59 separate months of activity since 17 November 2018. October 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 telecommunications markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable telecommunications market, Lithuania ranks 12th by number of records. The largest is United States (6,964 records against 340 here). Within Lithuania itself, telecommunications is the 13th largest of the 52 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Lithuania telecommunications records on this page come from?
These 340 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (340). 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 Telecommunications 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 telecommunications notice in Lithuania is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Lithuania – Sound equipment – Marijampolės kultūros centro lauko renginių garso aparatūra
Lithuania – Data-communications equipment – Aukšto našumo duomenų bazių talpinimo ir apdorojimo sprendimams įgyvendinti skirtos įrangos pirkimas
Lithuania – Telecommunications equipment and supplies – Kamieninio duomenų tinklo įrangos ir įrangos konfigūravimo paslaugų pirkimas_Procurement of Backbone data network equipment and equipment configuration services
Lithuania – Network equipment – Kamieninio tinklo naujinimas
Lithuania – Network equipment – 30411 Bevielio tinklo įranga traukiniuose
Lithuania – Network equipment – 30411 Bevielio tinklo įranga traukiniuose
Lithuania – Video recorders – Vaizdo kamerų sistemos atnaujinimo viešasis pirkimas (tarptautinis)
Lithuania – Coding equipment – Šifratorius
Lithuania – Video-conferencing equipment – Seimo komitetų ir komisijų posėdžių salių konferencinė įranga
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