Ethiopia tender market report, October 2026
Month to date, updated 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 268 notices
- Notices published
- 268
- -9% vs September 2026 (month to date)
- Still open
- 251
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 15 days
- middle half: 13–22 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
So far in October 2026, FreeTender recorded 268 new procurement notices from buyers in Ethiopia (-9% on September 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was Agriculture & Food with 57 notices (21% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 15 days or less to respond. Tuesday was the busiest publishing day (21% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Agriculture & Food57 notices+12%
- Construction & Infrastructure46 notices-39%
- Manufacturing & Supply29 notices+4%
- Financial & Professional Services27 notices+59%
- Education & Training19 notices+19%
- IT & Telecom18 notices+64%
- Water & Environment17 notices+6%
- Livelihoods & Enterprise Development14 notices-52%
- Energy & Power9 notices+80%
- Transport & Logistics4 notices-20%
- Healthcare & Pharma3 notices+0%
- Forestry & Wildlife3 notices+200%
- Media, Printing & Advertising2 notices-33%
- Research, Studies & Evaluation2 notices+100%
- Facility Management & Cleaning2 notices+100%
Change is against September 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Contract award195 notices
- Expression of interest35 notices
- Open tender18 notices
- Request for proposal11 notices
- Request for quotation9 notices
Publishing day
- Monday34 notices
- Tuesday57 notices
- Wednesday51 notices
- Thursday48 notices
- Friday49 notices
- Saturday21 notices
- Sunday8 notices
Most active buyers in Ethiopia
- World Bank project195 notices
- Ethiopian Statistical Service10 notices
- Afar Region RPCU5 notices
- UNDP5 notices
- Ministry of Agriculture4 notices
- African Development Bank project4 notices
- Africa Union Commission4 notices
- UNOPS4 notices
- ILO4 notices
- UN Secretariat4 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.