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RESEARCH / SPECIAL REPORT / DEFENCE AND SECURITY 2026
Lithuania Defence & Security Procurement 2026
Suppliers, buyers and market entry, for foreign suppliers assessing entry, for Lithuanian companies already selling to the state, and for the researchers and advisers who describe the sector.
EDITION ERX-LTDEF-2026-E1 v1.0
PAGES 43 English PDF
DATA as of 20 September 2026
PERIOD 1 January 2024 to 15 September 2026
Headline measures cover the two full years 2024 and 2025. 2026 year to date is reported separately and is not comparable.
12,931
New defence and security contracts in 2024 and 2025
EUR 2.006bn
Their value
2,998
Suppliers that won them
44.0%
Of the market awarded by a single buyer
“Lithuania’s defence and security market, as published, is a sustainment market with one dominant buyer, and the standard way of tracking it misses 95% of it.”
What it answers
Every question below is answered in a named section, not implied.
01
Who actually buys defence and security in Lithuania, and how concentrated is that buying?
SECTION 5.4 TO 5.6 BUYERS AND CONCENTRATION
02
What do they buy, and how much of it is equipment rather than sustainment?
SECTION 5.3 WHAT THE MONEY BUYS
03
Why does tracking the market by product code find only a fraction of it?
SECTION 5.2 THE TWO ROUTES
04
How much of the market do foreign suppliers win, and in which segments?
SECTION 5.7 CROSS BORDER
05
Is this market open to a company that already sells to the state?
SECTION 5.8 ENTRY AND TURNOVER
06
Did core defence really fall in 2025, or is that an artefact of how the source publishes amendments?
SECTION 5.10 THE 2025 FALL
ONE FIGURE FROM THE EDITION
The published defence market is a sustainment market.
Food, fuel, vehicles, catering and clothing take the largest shares of new contract value. Security and defence equipment, the code most people track this market by, takes 4.2 per cent. That is the gap between what the market is called and what it buys.
FIGURE D2, NEW CONTRACT AWARDS OF EUR 5,000 AND ABOVE, 2024 AND 2025, SHARE OF VALUE BY CPV DIVISION.
What is in the 43 pages
PAGES SECTION WHAT IS IN IT
4 About this report What the edition covers, and why it is published procurement rather than defence spending.
5 Executive summary Seven numbered statements, each one traceable to a table.
6 to 7 Methodology The two routes into the market and how they are combined, new awards separated from amendments, and how value is treated.
8 to 16 Market X-ray How big the market is, what is bought, who buys it, how concentrated the buying is, who wins, cross border participation, entry and turnover, and the 2025 fall.
17 to 19 Segments Where the door is wide and where the corridor is narrow, segment by segment.
20 to 29 Guide for foreign suppliers What the numbers say before the rules do, registration, exclusion grounds, the challenge timetable, which law applies, and where to start.
30 Playbook for Lithuanian bidders What the same evidence means for a company already selling to the state.
31 to 34 Limitations, sources and statements What the edition cannot tell you, every source, the licence block and the independence statement.
35 to 42 Appendices The data tables, a buyer list of 149 institutions, and the segment map.
Page numbers are from the printed edition, so you know where everything is before you buy it.
Three things the published figures get wrong
Product codes. The code for security and defence equipment covers 4.57% of the market’s value. 96.6% of what defence and security authorities buy is published under other codes.
What the money buys. Food, fuel, vehicles, catering and clothing are 59.30% of value. Security and defence equipment is 4.20%.
Foreign participation. Foreign suppliers win 1.66% of contracts and 7.54% of value, and that share sits in a few segments rather than spread across the market.
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