Ethiopia tender market report, September 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 293 notices
- Notices published
- 293
- -25% vs August 2026
- Still open
- 234
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 15 days
- middle half: 11–21 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In September 2026, FreeTender recorded 293 new procurement notices from buyers in Ethiopia (-25% on August 2026). The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 76 notices (26% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 15 days or less to respond. Wednesday was the busiest publishing day (28% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure76 notices-22%
- Agriculture & Food51 notices-32%
- Livelihoods & Enterprise Development29 notices-52%
- Manufacturing & Supply28 notices+8%
- Financial & Professional Services17 notices-6%
- Water & Environment16 notices-30%
- Education & Training16 notices-16%
- IT & Telecom11 notices+0%
- Social Development & Inclusion8 notices-74%
- Energy & Power5 notices+25%
- Transport & Logistics5 notices-17%
- Media, Printing & Advertising3 notices-25%
- Healthcare & Pharma3 notices-63%
- Electronics semiconductors2 notices
- Humanitarian & Emergency Relief2 notices+100%
Change is against August 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Contract award224 notices
- Request for proposal18 notices
- Expression of interest16 notices
- Open tender15 notices
- Request for quotation13 notices
- Grant / funding call6 notices
- Consultancy1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday48 notices
- Tuesday68 notices
- Wednesday82 notices
- Thursday34 notices
- Friday34 notices
- Saturday10 notices
- Sunday17 notices
Most active buyers in Ethiopia
- World Bank project224 notices
- ILO10 notices
- UNDP9 notices
- UNICEF6 notices
- UN Secretariat5 notices
- FAO5 notices
- Africa Union Commission3 notices
- Prime Minster Office, National ID Program2 notices
- Ministry of Health2 notices
- Ministry of Irrigation and Lowlands2 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.