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Global tender market report, October 2026

Month to date, updated 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 292,757 notices

Notices published
292,757
+82% vs September 2026 (month to date)
Still open
137,124
at the time of this report
Median bid window
8 days
middle half: 7–15 days
Countries
40
with notices this month

Summary

So far in October 2026, FreeTender recorded 292,757 new procurement notices from public buyers across 40 countries (+82% on September 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was Healthcare & Pharma with 57,247 notices (20% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 8 days or less to respond. Wednesday was the busiest publishing day (21% of notices).

Notices by sector

Change is against September 2026.

Notices by country

How buyers tendered

  • Open tender161,772 notices
  • Request for quotation80,819 notices
  • Invitation to bid26,733 notices
  • Request for proposal15,612 notices
  • Contract award2,018 notices
  • rfi1,529 notices
  • Grant / funding call1,469 notices
  • Expression of interest767 notices
  • Auction632 notices
  • Prequalification197 notices
  • Standing arrangement183 notices
  • Consultancy46 notices

Publishing day

  • Monday51,774 notices
  • Tuesday58,861 notices
  • Wednesday60,720 notices
  • Thursday56,729 notices
  • Friday55,809 notices
  • Saturday4,542 notices
  • Sunday4,322 notices

Country reports for October 2026

Other months

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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.

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