Research, Studies & Evaluation tenders in India

14 open notices

Baseline and endline studies, impact evaluations, third-party monitoring, household surveys, feasibility and market studies, and applied policy research for development programmes.

Who buys research, studies & evaluation in India

These are the organisations with the most research, studies & evaluation notices open in India right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

Research, Studies & Evaluation market snapshot

Since 31 Jul 2026, FreeTender has recorded 40 research, studies & evaluation notices in India, 13 of them open today. The median bid window is 13 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears.

Notices on record: 40
Open now: 13
Median bid window: 13 days
Median stated value: —

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Most active research, studies & evaluation buyers

World Bank project7 notices
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India)2 notices
The Antara Foundation (TAF)2 notices
BBC Media Action2 notices
Development Support Centre (DSC)2 notices
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V2 notices
GIZ2 notices
WaterAid India2 notices
World Bank Group1 notices
Fairtrade Network of Asia and Pacific Producers (NAPP)1 notices

By sub-sector

Evaluation & Review14 notices
Baseline & Endline Studies10 notices
Surveys & Data Collection5 notices
Applied & Policy Research4 notices
Feasibility & Market Studies1 notices
Monitoring & Verification1 notices

Where the work is

India11 notices
Central2 notices
Calcutta Telecom District1 notices
Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh1 notices
Ahmedabad, Gujarat1 notices
Location India · Issued Aug 18, 20261 notices
Location Maharashtra · Issued Sep 30, 20261 notices
Location Madhya Pradesh · Issued Sep 14, 20261 notices
Location Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh · Issued Sep 23, 20261 notices
Uttar Pradesh, Haryana1 notices

Procedures used

Request for proposal19 notices
Contract award7 notices
Expression of interest5 notices
Open tender4 notices
Request for quotation2 notices
Grant / funding call1 notices
Corrigendum1 notices
Invitation to bid1 notices

Computed by FreeTender from the notices we hold, refreshed nightly. Monthly market reports.

How they buy

Indian public procurement runs through several parallel systems rather than one. Central ministries and most states publish on GePNIC-based e-procurement portals (eprocure.gov.in and its state equivalents), commodity and service purchases increasingly go through the Government e-Marketplace (GeM), and large public sector undertakings — power utilities, coal and mining companies, oil marketing companies, railways — operate their own portals. Municipal bodies, development authorities and universities publish independently again, which is why a supplier watching only one portal sees a fraction of the market.

Across the research, studies & evaluation notices we currently hold for India, the most common form is the request for proposal, followed by expression of interest and invitation to bid. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Bidding almost always requires a Class III digital signature certificate, registration on the relevant portal, GST and PAN details, and audited accounts for the turnover test. Most works tenders set prior-experience thresholds expressed as completed similar works of a stated value within the last three to seven years. Registered micro and small enterprises can claim exemptions from earnest money and tender fees, and a share of central procurement is reserved for them — but the claim must be made in the bid with the Udyam certificate attached.

Research and evaluation assignments are commissioned by UN agencies, development banks, bilateral donors and international NGOs, and are almost always awarded on quality-and-cost rather than price alone — commonly 70:30 or 80:20 in favour of the technical proposal. The decisive elements are the proposed methodology, the named team and the evaluator's independence from the programme being assessed. Expect to be asked for a sampling frame, an analysis plan, ethics and safeguarding arrangements for research with human subjects, and prior assignments of comparable scope. Terms of reference frequently name a specific framework — the OECD-DAC criteria for evaluations, or a donor's own results framework — and a proposal that ignores it loses marks that were freely available. Data ownership and publication rights normally sit with the commissioning agency; check whether you may cite the work later.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.