Sri Lanka tender market report, September 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 106 notices
- Notices published
- 106
- +22% vs August 2026
- Still open
- 49
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 15 days
- middle half: 12–21 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In September 2026, FreeTender recorded 106 new procurement notices from buyers in Sri Lanka (+22% on August 2026). The largest sector was IT & Telecom with 26 notices (25% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 15 days or less to respond. Tuesday was the busiest publishing day (34% of notices).
Notices by sector
- IT & Telecom26 notices+1200%
- Construction & Infrastructure14 notices-18%
- Financial & Professional Services11 notices+57%
- Agriculture & Food6 notices-70%
- Manufacturing & Supply5 notices+25%
- Education & Training5 notices-17%
- Water & Environment5 notices+150%
- Healthcare & Pharma3 notices+50%
- Transport & Logistics3 notices
- Energy & Power2 notices-50%
- Forestry & Wildlife2 notices
- Social Development & Inclusion2 notices
- Climate, Resilience & Disaster Risk2 notices+0%
- Sports, Recreation & Events2 notices-71%
- Research, Studies & Evaluation2 notices
Change is against August 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Contract award43 notices
- Open tender21 notices
- Request for quotation18 notices
- Request for proposal14 notices
- Grant / funding call6 notices
- Expression of interest4 notices
Publishing day
- Monday21 notices
- Tuesday36 notices
- Wednesday24 notices
- Thursday10 notices
- Friday12 notices
- Saturday2 notices
- Sunday1 notices
Most active buyers in Sri Lanka
- World Bank project43 notices
- UNDP11 notices
- FAO9 notices
- ILO8 notices
- UNIDO6 notices
- Road Development Authority5 notices
- MINISTRY OF IRRIGATION4 notices
- UNOPS4 notices
- UNFPA2 notices
- World Bank Group2 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.