New Zealand tender market report, October 2026
Month to date, updated 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 299 notices
- Notices published
- 299
- -25% vs September 2026 (month to date)
- Still open
- 283
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 29 days
- middle half: 25–31 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
So far in October 2026, FreeTender recorded 299 new procurement notices from buyers in New Zealand (-25% on September 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 106 notices (35% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 29 days or less to respond. Thursday was the busiest publishing day (24% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure106 notices+3%
- Education & Training69 notices-24%
- Water & Environment21 notices-57%
- Healthcare & Pharma18 notices-31%
- IT & Telecom16 notices-6%
- Transport & Logistics8 notices-62%
- Media, Printing & Advertising7 notices+17%
- Forestry & Wildlife5 notices+67%
- Sports, Recreation & Events5 notices-58%
- Manufacturing & Supply4 notices+0%
- Financial & Professional Services4 notices-79%
- Agriculture & Food4 notices+0%
- Energy & Power4 notices+0%
- Defence & Security4 notices-20%
- Facility Management & Cleaning3 notices+0%
Change is against September 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Open tender279 notices
- Grant / funding call15 notices
- Contract award5 notices
Publishing day
- Monday45 notices
- Tuesday58 notices
- Wednesday51 notices
- Thursday71 notices
- Friday24 notices
- Saturday0 notices
- Sunday50 notices
Most active buyers in New Zealand
- New Zealand Government279 notices
- World Bank project5 notices
- Te Pou1 notices
- Horticulture New Zealand1 notices
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust1 notices
- Catalytic Foundation1 notices
- WBS Charitable Trust1 notices
- Wilson Home Trust1 notices
- Manaaki New Zealand Scholarships1 notices
- Asia New Zealand Foundation1 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.