United Arab Emirates tender market report, November 2026
Month to date, updated 14 Nov 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 145 notices
- Notices published
- 145
- -60% vs October 2026 (month to date)
- Still open
- 91
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 9 days
- middle half: 5–15 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
So far in November 2026, FreeTender recorded 145 new procurement notices from buyers in United Arab Emirates (-60% on October 2026, comparing a part month with a full one). The largest sector was IT & Telecom with 23 notices (16% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 9 days or less to respond. Tuesday was the busiest publishing day (23% of notices).
Notices by sector
- IT & Telecom23 notices-51%
- Construction & Infrastructure19 notices-63%
- Financial & Professional Services13 notices-35%
- Media, Printing & Advertising11 notices-54%
- Healthcare & Pharma9 notices+29%
- Sports, Recreation & Events8 notices-71%
- Water & Environment6 notices-33%
- Manufacturing & Supply5 notices-83%
- Education & Training4 notices-81%
- Transport & Logistics3 notices-80%
- Forestry & Wildlife2 notices-60%
- Defence & Security2 notices-67%
- Agriculture & Food2 notices-71%
- Research, Studies & Evaluation2 notices-50%
- Facility Management & Cleaning1 notices-80%
Change is against October 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Request for quotation71 notices
- Open tender60 notices
- rfi11 notices
- Request for proposal1 notices
- Grant / funding call1 notices
- Contract award1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday28 notices
- Tuesday34 notices
- Wednesday30 notices
- Thursday30 notices
- Friday22 notices
- Saturday0 notices
- Sunday1 notices
Most active buyers in United Arab Emirates
- Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi7 notices
- Institute of Applied Technology5 notices
- FATWA - The UAE Council for FATWA4 notices
- Emirates Drug Establishment4 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.