United Arab Emirates tender market report, August 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 121 notices
- Notices published
- 121
- Still open
- 4
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 9 days
- middle half: 3–18 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In August 2026, FreeTender recorded 121 new procurement notices from buyers in United Arab Emirates. The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 30 notices (25% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 9 days or less to respond. Sunday was the busiest publishing day (91% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure30 notices
- IT & Telecom17 notices
- Financial & Professional Services11 notices
- Manufacturing & Supply11 notices
- Healthcare & Pharma8 notices
- Media, Printing & Advertising6 notices
- Water & Environment6 notices
- Transport & Logistics4 notices
- Facility Management & Cleaning4 notices
- Sports, Recreation & Events4 notices
- Mining & Metals3 notices
- Education & Training3 notices
- Agriculture & Food2 notices
- Forestry & Wildlife2 notices
- Energy & Power1 notices
How buyers tendered
- Request for quotation91 notices
- rfi23 notices
- Open tender4 notices
- Contract award2 notices
- Request for proposal1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday7 notices
- Tuesday0 notices
- Wednesday4 notices
- Thursday0 notices
- Friday0 notices
- Saturday0 notices
- Sunday110 notices
Most active buyers in United Arab Emirates
- Institute of Applied Technology10 notices
- Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi8 notices
- Al Ain City Municipality6 notices
- Abu Dhabi City Municipality5 notices
- Civil Defense4 notices
- Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre4 notices
- ADPIC - Abu Dhabi Sports Council3 notices
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.