The article presents the results of a survey completed by the executors of projects, financed within the framework of a federal target-oriented programme «Research and development in the priority areas of development of the Russian scientific-technological complex between 2014–2020». Respondents were asked to assess the significance of incentive factors motivating independent experts who conduct the evaluation of the scientific-technical projects. The obtained results demonstrated that according to the respondents, non-material motivation factors are not of a lesser importance than the size of a material incentive for completing the evaluation. This circumstance should be accounted for when organizing the evaluations of scientific-technical projects and special attention should be paid to providing non-material incentives for independent experts.