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Global tender market report, August 2026

Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 36,874 notices

Notices published
36,874
Still open
3,765
at the time of this report
Median bid window
16 days
middle half: 10–27 days
Countries
40
with notices this month

Summary

In August 2026, FreeTender recorded 36,874 new procurement notices from public buyers across 40 countries. The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 12,425 notices (34% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 16 days or less to respond. Monday was the busiest publishing day (18% of notices).

Notices by sector

Notices by country

How buyers tendered

  • Open tender22,650 notices
  • Invitation to bid6,537 notices
  • Contract award1,947 notices
  • Request for proposal1,717 notices
  • Request for quotation1,297 notices
  • Expression of interest825 notices
  • Grant / funding call738 notices
  • Consultancy280 notices
  • rfi258 notices
  • Prequalification87 notices
  • Corrigendum73 notices
  • Standing arrangement71 notices

Publishing day

  • Monday6,478 notices
  • Tuesday5,195 notices
  • Wednesday4,606 notices
  • Thursday5,964 notices
  • Friday5,898 notices
  • Saturday3,458 notices
  • Sunday5,275 notices

Country reports for August 2026

Other months

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Method: counts are notices first published in the month, by the buyer's country, across all sources FreeTender reads. Bid window means days from publication to the deadline. Coverage grows as we add sources, so part of any rise can be new coverage rather than new demand. You may quote these figures with a link to this page. The underlying rows are in our open dataset.

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