Australia tender market report, October 2026
Month to date, updated 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 573 notices
- Notices published
- 573
- -23% vs September 2026 (month to date)
- Still open
- 557
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 25 days
- middle half: 21–31 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
So far in October 2026, FreeTender recorded 573 new procurement notices from buyers in Australia (-23% on September 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 156 notices (27% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 25 days or less to respond. Thursday was the busiest publishing day (25% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure156 notices-13%
- Water & Environment55 notices-43%
- Financial & Professional Services42 notices-11%
- Education & Training41 notices-20%
- Transport & Logistics31 notices-47%
- Healthcare & Pharma30 notices+0%
- Manufacturing & Supply29 notices+71%
- Agriculture & Food22 notices+22%
- Sports, Recreation & Events22 notices-62%
- IT & Telecom16 notices-38%
- Defence & Security13 notices-24%
- Real Estate & Facilities11 notices-54%
- Facility Management & Cleaning10 notices-23%
- Energy & Power8 notices-20%
- Capacity Building & Technical Assistance8 notices+0%
Change is against September 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Open tender394 notices
- Grant / funding call112 notices
- Request for quotation27 notices
- Expression of interest19 notices
- rfi6 notices
- Contract award5 notices
- Request for proposal4 notices
- Standing arrangement4 notices
- Prequalification2 notices
Publishing day
- Monday96 notices
- Tuesday107 notices
- Wednesday100 notices
- Thursday146 notices
- Friday81 notices
- Saturday35 notices
- Sunday8 notices
Most active buyers in Australia
- McKinlay Shire Council22 notices
- QBuild15 notices
- Department of Defence - DSRG13 notices
- Torres Strait Island Regional Council12 notices
- BGIS10 notices
- Central Highlands Regional Council9 notices
- Ballina Shire Council8 notices
- Bundaberg Regional Council8 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.