Japan tender market report, September 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 234 notices
- Notices published
- 234
- +409% vs August 2026
- Still open
- 143
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 50 days
- middle half: 30–59 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In September 2026, FreeTender recorded 234 new procurement notices from buyers in Japan (+409% on August 2026). The largest sector was Financial & Professional Services with 29 notices (12% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 50 days or less to respond. Thursday was the busiest publishing day (26% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Financial & Professional Services29 notices+263%
- IT & Telecom28 notices+460%
- Transport & Logistics28 notices+250%
- Manufacturing & Supply26 notices+1200%
- Education & Training25 notices+257%
- Media, Printing & Advertising18 notices+800%
- Healthcare & Pharma18 notices+500%
- Construction & Infrastructure13 notices+225%
- Research, Studies & Evaluation8 notices+700%
- Real Estate & Facilities6 notices+500%
- Water & Environment5 notices
- Energy & Power4 notices+100%
- Chemicals & Materials3 notices
- Communications networks2 notices
- Electronics semiconductors2 notices
Change is against August 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Open tender197 notices
- Grant / funding call34 notices
- Request for quotation2 notices
- Request for proposal1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday41 notices
- Tuesday43 notices
- Wednesday36 notices
- Thursday61 notices
- Friday53 notices
- Saturday0 notices
- Sunday0 notices
Most active buyers in Japan
- Japan Post15 notices
- National University Corporation15 notices
- Japan Pension Service13 notices
- National Printing Bureau11 notices
- Ministry of Justice9 notices
- Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry8 notices
- Ministry of Finance7 notices
- Ministry of Defense7 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.