Global / multi-country tender market report, August 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 376 notices
- Notices published
- 376
- Still open
- 56
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 17 days
- middle half: 11–30 days
- With a stated value
- 13
- 3% of notices
Summary
In August 2026, FreeTender recorded 376 new procurement notices from buyers in Global / multi-country. The largest sector was Financial & Professional Services with 63 notices (17% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 17 days or less to respond. Monday was the busiest publishing day (22% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Financial & Professional Services63 notices
- IT & Telecom46 notices
- Education & Training35 notices
- Healthcare & Pharma29 notices
- Social Development & Inclusion26 notices
- Water & Environment25 notices
- Climate, Resilience & Disaster Risk14 notices
- Construction & Infrastructure12 notices
- Media, Printing & Advertising12 notices
- Research, Studies & Evaluation9 notices
- Manufacturing & Supply8 notices
- Transport & Logistics8 notices
- Sports, Recreation & Events7 notices
- Energy & Power7 notices
- Forestry & Wildlife6 notices
How buyers tendered
- Request for proposal113 notices
- Grant / funding call82 notices
- Request for quotation67 notices
- Expression of interest42 notices
- Open tender37 notices
- Consultancy27 notices
- Contract award5 notices
- Invitation to bid2 notices
- Corrigendum1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday84 notices
- Tuesday69 notices
- Wednesday53 notices
- Thursday71 notices
- Friday81 notices
- Saturday14 notices
- Sunday4 notices
Most active buyers in Global / multi-country
- ILO55 notices
- UNDP32 notices
- UNICEF20 notices
- Welthungerhilfe15 notices
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)12 notices
- UNOPS10 notices
- WHO9 notices
- UN Secretariat8 notices
Stated values
13 of 376 notices stated an estimated value. Figures are in the currency the buyer used.
| Currency | Priced notices | Median | Largest | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 13 | 120 thousand | 400 thousand | 2.2 million |
Largest notices of the month
- Strategic Infrastructure Investment Planning for Andean Productive Corridors: From Baseline to Bankable Projects · USD 400 thousand · closed
- Design for the improvement of the RD PET-08 road section: Chacté Village – Santa Cruz Frontera, municipality of San Luis, department of Petén, for the preparation of detailed engineering studies and t · USD 330 thousand · closed
- Valuation of the Flying Rivers of the Amazon & Nature Credits Framework · USD 300 thousand · closed
- Bolivia-Chile Electrical Interconnection Study, Second Phase · USD 278 thousand · closed
- Secretariat of the Latin America and Caribbean Resilience, Readiness, and Risk-Protection Review (LAC-4R) · USD 255 thousand · closed
Other months
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.