Japan tender market report, October 2026
Month to date, updated 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 142 notices
- Notices published
- 142
- -39% vs September 2026 (month to date)
- Still open
- 141
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 52 days
- middle half: 32–57 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
So far in October 2026, FreeTender recorded 142 new procurement notices from buyers in Japan (-39% on September 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was Energy & Power with 23 notices (16% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 52 days or less to respond. Friday was the busiest publishing day (30% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Energy & Power23 notices+475%
- Financial & Professional Services18 notices-38%
- IT & Telecom16 notices-43%
- Education & Training14 notices-44%
- Transport & Logistics11 notices-61%
- Media, Printing & Advertising10 notices-44%
- Manufacturing & Supply10 notices-62%
- Construction & Infrastructure9 notices-31%
- Healthcare & Pharma7 notices-61%
- Water & Environment6 notices+20%
- Real Estate & Facilities5 notices-17%
- Chemicals & Materials2 notices-33%
- Research, Studies & Evaluation2 notices-75%
- Facility Management & Cleaning1 notices-50%
- Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals1 notices
Change is against September 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Open tender126 notices
- Grant / funding call15 notices
- Request for quotation1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday14 notices
- Tuesday26 notices
- Wednesday29 notices
- Thursday29 notices
- Friday43 notices
- Saturday1 notices
- Sunday0 notices
Most active buyers in Japan
- Japan Post12 notices
- National University Corporation11 notices
- Ministry of Finance10 notices
- National Printing Bureau9 notices
- Japan Pension Service7 notices
- Ministry of Justice6 notices
- Japan Foundation4 notices
- Toyota Foundation3 notices
- Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries3 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.