United Arab Emirates tender market report, October 2026
Month to date, updated 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 281 notices
- Notices published
- 281
- -21% vs September 2026 (month to date)
- Still open
- 137
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 9 days
- middle half: 6–15 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
So far in October 2026, FreeTender recorded 281 new procurement notices from buyers in United Arab Emirates (-21% on September 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 39 notices (14% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 9 days or less to respond. Thursday was the busiest publishing day (24% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure39 notices+0%
- IT & Telecom37 notices-34%
- Manufacturing & Supply27 notices-7%
- Sports, Recreation & Events20 notices+18%
- Media, Printing & Advertising18 notices-31%
- Financial & Professional Services16 notices+45%
- Education & Training15 notices-6%
- Transport & Logistics14 notices-30%
- Water & Environment7 notices-53%
- Agriculture & Food6 notices-25%
- Facility Management & Cleaning5 notices-44%
- Healthcare & Pharma5 notices-84%
- Forestry & Wildlife4 notices+0%
- Energy & Power3 notices+0%
- Research, Studies & Evaluation3 notices+200%
Change is against September 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Request for quotation143 notices
- Open tender111 notices
- rfi22 notices
- Contract award3 notices
- Request for proposal2 notices
Publishing day
- Monday45 notices
- Tuesday58 notices
- Wednesday52 notices
- Thursday67 notices
- Friday42 notices
- Saturday14 notices
- Sunday3 notices
Most active buyers in United Arab Emirates
- Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority-18 notices
- Ministry of Education13 notices
- Institute of Applied Technology External12 notices
- Al Ain City Municipality10 notices
- Ministry of Justice10 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.