Commissioning research capability, facilities and specialist analysis
Scientific research is bought in three distinguishable ways and the notices look similar. The first is a commissioned programme: the buyer defines a question and funds a team to investigate it. The second is access to capability -- beam time, vessel time, controlled environment facilities, computing -- where the buyer is purchasing time on an asset it cannot justify owning. The third is routine analytical service, where samples are sent and results returned against a method and a turnaround. Each has different qualification and different economics.
Quality assurance is the recurring requirement. Laboratories are expected to hold accreditation for the specific methods in scope, participate in proficiency testing, maintain traceable calibration and documented chain of custody for samples, and report uncertainty alongside results. For work that may be used in regulation or litigation, those requirements harden further and the reporting format itself becomes specified. An accreditation held for a neighbouring method does not satisfy a requirement written for this one.
Data and publication terms are as commercially significant as the price. Public and donor funders increasingly require research data to be deposited under open conditions with defined metadata, and require resulting publications to be openly accessible, which has cost and timing implications a bid should carry. Ethical approval, biosafety and containment levels, animal research licensing, export and transfer controls on materials, and access and benefit-sharing obligations for genetic resources are conditions precedent with their own lead times, and they are the usual reason an award does not translate into a start.
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 scientific research in Malta?
GlobalGov holds 27 scientific research records from 5 distinct buying organisations in Malta. The most frequent publishers are Sectoral Procurement Directorate (17 records); Department of Contracts (4 records); European Union Agency for Asylum (2 records); European Asylum Support Office (EASO) (1 record); European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) (1 record). Between them the 5 largest account for 93% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sectoral Procurement Directorate | 17 | 63% |
| Department of Contracts | 4 | 15% |
| European Union Agency for Asylum | 2 | 7.4% |
| European Asylum Support Office (EASO) | 1 | 3.7% |
| European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) | 1 | 3.7% |
What are scientific research contracts worth in Malta?
12 of the 27 records publish a contract value. The median is $283,009 and the largest single published value is $1.7M. By size, 11 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 15 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 | 11 | 92% |
| between $1M and $10M | 1 | 8.3% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to scientific research tenders in Malta?
Across the 8 Malta scientific research 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 37. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are scientific research tenders published in Malta?
Malta published 6 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 13, spread across 19 separate months of activity since 29 June 2021. December 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 Malta compare with other scientific research markets?
Among the 21 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable scientific research market, Malta ranks 20th by number of records. The largest is Germany (1,240 records against 27 here). Within Malta itself, scientific research is the 28th largest of the 35 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Malta scientific research records on this page come from?
These 27 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (27). 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 Scientific Research tenders in Malta
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 27 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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