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 Romania?
GlobalGov holds 187 research & development records from 132 distinct buying organisations in Romania. The most frequent publishers are Universitatea Din Bucuresti (5 records); Institutul DE Urgenta Pentru Boli Cardiovasculare SI Transplant Targu Mures (4 records); Institutul National DE Cercetare Dezvoltare Pentru Bioresurse Alimentare IBA Bucuresti (3 records); Spital Clinic Judetean De Urgenta Arad (3 records); Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență „Sf. Apostol Andrei” (3 records); Spitalul Județean de Urgență Ploiești (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 11% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Universitatea Din Bucuresti | 5 | 2.7% |
| Institutul DE Urgenta Pentru Boli Cardiovasculare SI Transplant Targu Mures | 4 | 2.1% |
| Institutul National DE Cercetare Dezvoltare Pentru Bioresurse Alimentare IBA Bucuresti | 3 | 1.6% |
| Spital Clinic Judetean De Urgenta Arad | 3 | 1.6% |
| Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență „Sf. Apostol Andrei” | 3 | 1.6% |
| Spitalul Județean de Urgență Ploiești | 3 | 1.6% |
What are research & development contracts worth in Romania?
146 of the 187 records publish a contract value. The median is $323,871 and the largest single published value is $15.9M. By size, 34 under $100k, 78 between $100k and $1M, 31 between $1M and $10M, 3 above $10M. The remaining 41 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 | 34 | 23% |
| between $100k and $1M | 78 | 53% |
| between $1M and $10M | 31 | 21% |
| above $10M | 3 | 2.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research & development tenders in Romania?
Across the 88 Romania 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 30 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 research & development tenders published in Romania?
Romania publishes about 7 notices a month in this category, 85 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 89, spread across 49 separate months of activity since 20 July 2016. August is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.
How does Romania compare with other research & development markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research & development market, Romania ranks 16th by number of records. The largest is Australia (13,059 records against 187 here). Within Romania itself, research & development is the 33rd largest of the 61 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Romania research & development records on this page come from?
These 187 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (187). 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 Romania
Showing 10 of the 27 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Romania 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.
Romania – Laboratory reagents – FURNIZARE PACHETE DE REACTIVI SI CONSUMABILE, COMPATIBILE SAU ECHIVALENTE CU APARATELE DIN DOTARE
Romania – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – Echipamente pentru laborator
Romania – Laboratory reagents – Reactivi de laborator- Cercetare
Romania – Laboratory reagents – Reactivi pentru analize imunologice: Lot 1- Acord cadru de furnizare reactivi pentru analiza hormonului de creștere (hGH)
Romania – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – Furnizare de echipamente de laborator: LOT 1- Cuptor de laborator Nabertherm sau echivalent LOT 2 - Etuva cu convectie naturala, Memmert sau echivalent LOT 3 - Balanta analitica cu calibrare interna, Bel Engineering sau echivalent LOT 4 - pH-metru stationar cu electrod de pH, Giorgio Bormac sau echivalent LOT 5 - Agitatoare magnetice cu incalzire Benchmark Scientific,CAT sau echivalente
Romania – Laboratory reagents – FURNIZARE REACTIVI DE LABORATOR
Romania – Laboratory reagents – ACORD CADRU PENTRU FURNIZARE DE REACTIVI SI MATERIALE DE LABORATOR PENTRU SISTEMUL HPLC-LC/MS/MS Shimadzu 8050CL
Romania – Laboratory reagents – Reactivi de laborator pentru metode manuale
Romania – Laboratory reagents – Reactivi de laborator contract de cercetare SEARCH-VASC
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