United Arab Emirates tender market report, September 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 355 notices
- Notices published
- 355
- +193% vs August 2026
- Still open
- 25
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 12 days
- middle half: 7–20 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In September 2026, FreeTender recorded 355 new procurement notices from buyers in United Arab Emirates (+193% on August 2026). The largest sector was IT & Telecom with 56 notices (16% of the total). The fastest growing was IT & Telecom, up 229% to 56. Half of all notices gave bidders 12 days or less to respond. Tuesday was the busiest publishing day (26% of notices).
Notices by sector
- IT & Telecom56 notices+229%
- Construction & Infrastructure39 notices+30%
- Healthcare & Pharma31 notices+288%
- Manufacturing & Supply29 notices+164%
- Media, Printing & Advertising26 notices+333%
- Transport & Logistics20 notices+400%
- Sports, Recreation & Events17 notices+325%
- Education & Training16 notices+433%
- Water & Environment15 notices+150%
- Financial & Professional Services11 notices+0%
- Facility Management & Cleaning9 notices+125%
- Agriculture & Food8 notices+300%
- Communications networks6 notices+500%
- Defence & Security5 notices+400%
- Forestry & Wildlife4 notices+100%
Change is against August 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Request for quotation247 notices
- Open tender78 notices
- rfi19 notices
- Contract award4 notices
- Request for proposal4 notices
- Grant / funding call3 notices
Publishing day
- Monday57 notices
- Tuesday91 notices
- Wednesday68 notices
- Thursday68 notices
- Friday62 notices
- Saturday8 notices
- Sunday1 notices
Most active buyers in United Arab Emirates
- Institute of Applied Technology32 notices
- Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi20 notices
- Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority-11 notices
- ITC - Integrated Transport Centre10 notices
- Al Ain City Municipality9 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.