Zambia tender market report, October 2026
Month to date, updated 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 63 notices
- Notices published
- 63
- -6% vs September 2026 (month to date)
- Still open
- 50
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 11 days
- middle half: 5–19 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
So far in October 2026, FreeTender recorded 63 new procurement notices from buyers in Zambia (-6% on September 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was Energy & Power with 14 notices (22% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 11 days or less to respond. Thursday was the busiest publishing day (38% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Energy & Power14 notices+367%
- Construction & Infrastructure12 notices+200%
- Financial & Professional Services7 notices-36%
- Media, Printing & Advertising3 notices+200%
- IT & Telecom3 notices-25%
- Facility Management & Cleaning3 notices+0%
- Transport & Logistics3 notices+0%
- Manufacturing & Supply2 notices-33%
- Electrical equipment1 notices
- Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals1 notices
- Research, Studies & Evaluation1 notices
- Agriculture & Food1 notices-86%
- Sports, Recreation & Events1 notices+0%
- Defence & Security1 notices-50%
- Livelihoods & Enterprise Development1 notices+0%
Change is against September 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Open tender19 notices
- Request for quotation14 notices
- Contract award13 notices
- Expression of interest9 notices
- Request for proposal7 notices
- Corrigendum1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday10 notices
- Tuesday12 notices
- Wednesday6 notices
- Thursday24 notices
- Friday10 notices
- Saturday1 notices
- Sunday0 notices
Most active buyers in Zambia
- ZESCO Limited17 notices
- ILO14 notices
- World Bank project13 notices
- UNDP5 notices
- FAO3 notices
- UNIDO1 notices
- Ministry of Commerce Trade and Industry1 notices
- Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development1 notices
- COMESA1 notices
- UNOPS1 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.