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Global tender market report, September 2026

Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 160,535 notices

Notices published
160,535
+335% vs August 2026
Still open
25,188
at the time of this report
Median bid window
16 days
middle half: 9–29 days
Countries
40
with notices this month

Summary

In September 2026, FreeTender recorded 160,535 new procurement notices from public buyers across 40 countries (+335% on August 2026). The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 38,396 notices (24% of the total). The fastest growing was Facility Management & Cleaning, up 1044% to 7,769. Half of all notices gave bidders 16 days or less to respond. Wednesday was the busiest publishing day (24% of notices).

Notices by sector

Change is against August 2026.

Notices by country

How buyers tendered

  • Open tender100,567 notices
  • Invitation to bid37,606 notices
  • Request for quotation8,371 notices
  • Contract award2,912 notices
  • Request for proposal2,601 notices
  • Grant / funding call2,455 notices
  • rfi1,873 notices
  • Expression of interest983 notices
  • Auction683 notices
  • Prequalification355 notices
  • Standing arrangement284 notices
  • Consultancy138 notices

Publishing day

  • Monday27,676 notices
  • Tuesday29,736 notices
  • Wednesday38,970 notices
  • Thursday24,907 notices
  • Friday25,634 notices
  • Saturday6,227 notices
  • Sunday7,385 notices

Country reports for September 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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