Sri Lanka tender market report, October 2026
Month to date, updated 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 79 notices
- Notices published
- 79
- -25% vs September 2026 (month to date)
- Still open
- 63
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 14 days
- middle half: 9–15 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
So far in October 2026, FreeTender recorded 79 new procurement notices from buyers in Sri Lanka (-25% on September 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 10 notices (13% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 14 days or less to respond. Wednesday was the busiest publishing day (28% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure10 notices-29%
- Agriculture & Food8 notices+33%
- Water & Environment6 notices+20%
- Climate, Resilience & Disaster Risk5 notices+150%
- Sports, Recreation & Events5 notices+150%
- Healthcare & Pharma5 notices+67%
- Manufacturing & Supply5 notices+0%
- Education & Training4 notices-20%
- Financial & Professional Services4 notices-64%
- Transport & Logistics3 notices+0%
- Media, Printing & Advertising3 notices+200%
- Livelihoods & Enterprise Development2 notices
- Facility Management & Cleaning2 notices
- Real Estate & Facilities2 notices+100%
- IT & Telecom2 notices-92%
Change is against September 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Contract award35 notices
- Request for quotation18 notices
- Request for proposal13 notices
- Open tender10 notices
- Expression of interest2 notices
- Grant / funding call1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday15 notices
- Tuesday10 notices
- Wednesday22 notices
- Thursday17 notices
- Friday14 notices
- Saturday1 notices
- Sunday0 notices
Most active buyers in Sri Lanka
- World Bank project35 notices
- ILO15 notices
- FAO10 notices
- UNDP10 notices
- Road Development Authority2 notices
- MINISTRY OF IRRIGATION1 notices
- Sri Lanka Ports Authority1 notices
- UNOPS1 notices
- Ministry of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment1 notices
- UNFPA1 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.