Zambia tender market report, September 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 67 notices
- Notices published
- 67
- +72% vs August 2026
- Still open
- 20
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 9 days
- middle half: 3–17 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In September 2026, FreeTender recorded 67 new procurement notices from buyers in Zambia (+72% on August 2026). The largest sector was Financial & Professional Services with 11 notices (16% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 9 days or less to respond. Wednesday was the busiest publishing day (27% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Financial & Professional Services11 notices+38%
- Agriculture & Food7 notices+600%
- Construction & Infrastructure4 notices+300%
- IT & Telecom4 notices-33%
- Education & Training4 notices+0%
- Facility Management & Cleaning3 notices
- Energy & Power3 notices+0%
- Manufacturing & Supply3 notices
- Transport & Logistics3 notices-40%
- Defence & Security2 notices
- Social Development & Inclusion1 notices
- Livelihoods & Enterprise Development1 notices
- Healthcare & Pharma1 notices+0%
- Media, Printing & Advertising1 notices+0%
Change is against August 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Request for quotation21 notices
- Contract award17 notices
- Expression of interest10 notices
- Open tender7 notices
- Grant / funding call6 notices
- Request for proposal6 notices
Publishing day
- Monday14 notices
- Tuesday16 notices
- Wednesday18 notices
- Thursday11 notices
- Friday8 notices
- Saturday0 notices
- Sunday0 notices
Most active buyers in Zambia
- ILO18 notices
- World Bank project17 notices
- Ministry of Green Economy and Enviroment5 notices
- African Development Bank project3 notices
- ZESCO Limited3 notices
- UNIDO3 notices
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)2 notices
- UNFPA2 notices
- UNDP2 notices
- COMESA1 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.