New Zealand tender market report, September 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 399 notices
- Notices published
- 399
- +29% vs August 2026
- Still open
- 131
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 29 days
- middle half: 23–32 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In September 2026, FreeTender recorded 399 new procurement notices from buyers in New Zealand (+29% on August 2026). The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 103 notices (26% of the total). The fastest growing was Financial & Professional Services, up 90% to 19. Half of all notices gave bidders 29 days or less to respond. Tuesday was the busiest publishing day (21% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure103 notices-6%
- Education & Training91 notices+44%
- Water & Environment49 notices+88%
- Healthcare & Pharma26 notices+44%
- Transport & Logistics21 notices+50%
- Financial & Professional Services19 notices+90%
- IT & Telecom17 notices-11%
- Sports, Recreation & Events12 notices+300%
- Media, Printing & Advertising6 notices+0%
- Defence & Security5 notices+67%
- Real Estate & Facilities5 notices+25%
- Energy & Power4 notices-33%
- Agriculture & Food4 notices+100%
- Climate, Resilience & Disaster Risk4 notices
- Manufacturing & Supply4 notices+100%
Change is against August 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Open tender316 notices
- Grant / funding call80 notices
- Contract award3 notices
Publishing day
- Monday78 notices
- Tuesday82 notices
- Wednesday82 notices
- Thursday70 notices
- Friday40 notices
- Saturday0 notices
- Sunday47 notices
Most active buyers in New Zealand
- New Zealand Government316 notices
- World Bank project3 notices
- Manaaki New Zealand Scholarships2 notices
- Auckland Council1 notices
- Taranaki Foundation Annual Funding1 notices
- Phyllis Augusta Rolfes Scholarship1 notices
- Residency1 notices
- Resource Wise Fund1 notices
- Early Career Fund1 notices
- Public Trust1 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.