A statistical analysis of competitive research contracting in the field of life sciences

Assessment of applications in open state calls for a competitive contracting is regulated by the Federal Law 94-FZ. Ratios of dif-ferent criteria in assessing applications (price, terms, and quality of proposal) are set in the legislation and make it possible, as a re-sult of calculations using a universal formula, to assign a score for each application. Using these rating scores, winners are selected. In this paper, we have attempted to characterize the correlation between the price and quality of the research proposed by the applicants and estimate how efficient it is to use the legally set weighted values of different criteria in assessing applications.