FreeTender

Livelihoods & Enterprise Development tenders in India

23 open notices

Livelihood support, income-generating activities, MSME and enterprise development, value chains, employment and skills, financial inclusion and microfinance.

Who buys livelihoods & enterprise development in India

These are the organisations with the most livelihoods & enterprise development notices open in India right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

Livelihoods & Enterprise Development market snapshot

Since 26 Jul 2026, FreeTender has recorded 100 livelihoods & enterprise development notices in India, 25 of them open today. The median bid window is 11 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears. Where buyers state a value, the median is INR 1.1 million (18 priced notices).

Notices on record
100
Open now
25
Median bid window
11 days
Median stated value
INR 1.1 million
JulAugSeptOct

Most active livelihoods & enterprise development buyers

By sub-sector

Where the work is

  • Central11 notices
  • India9 notices
  • Madhya Pradesh5 notices
  • NTPC (CPSE)4 notices
  • Delhi3 notices
  • Indian Oil Corporation (CPSE)3 notices
  • West Bengal3 notices
  • Location India · Issued Sep 03, 20261 notices
  • Location India · Issued Aug 21, 20261 notices
  • Rajasthan, Gujarat1 notices

Procedures used

  • Request for proposal45 notices
  • Open tender31 notices
  • Expression of interest7 notices
  • Grant / funding call7 notices
  • Contract award5 notices
  • Prequalification2 notices
  • Request for quotation2 notices
  • Invitation to bid1 notices

Computed by FreeTender from the notices we hold, refreshed nightly. Monthly market reports.

How they buy

Indian public procurement runs through several parallel systems rather than one. Central ministries and most states publish on GePNIC-based e-procurement portals (eprocure.gov.in and its state equivalents), commodity and service purchases increasingly go through the Government e-Marketplace (GeM), and large public sector undertakings — power utilities, coal and mining companies, oil marketing companies, railways — operate their own portals. Municipal bodies, development authorities and universities publish independently again, which is why a supplier watching only one portal sees a fraction of the market.

Across the livelihoods & enterprise development notices we currently hold for India, the most common form is the open tender or invitation to bid, followed by request for proposal, expression of interest and invitation to bid. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Bidding almost always requires a Class III digital signature certificate, registration on the relevant portal, GST and PAN details, and audited accounts for the turnover test. Most works tenders set prior-experience thresholds expressed as completed similar works of a stated value within the last three to seven years. Registered micro and small enterprises can claim exemptions from earnest money and tender fees, and a share of central procurement is reserved for them — but the claim must be made in the bid with the Udyam certificate attached.

Livelihoods and enterprise work is delivery-heavy and measured in outcomes — households reached, enterprises started or sustained, jobs created, income change against a baseline. That makes local presence and a credible community-mobilisation approach as important as technical design, and it is why these contracts frequently go to national organisations or to consortia pairing an international firm with local implementers. Expect payment tied to milestones or verified results, obligations to disaggregate reporting by sex and age, and scrutiny of how benefits will continue after the contract ends. Where the assignment involves grants, revolving funds or matching capital to participants, the financial-management and audit requirements are substantially heavier than for an ordinary services contract.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.

Open livelihoods & enterprise development tenders in India

See all 23 livelihoods & enterprise development notices in India →

Other sectors in India

Construction & InfrastructureIT & TelecomHealthcare & PharmaEnergy & PowerDefence & SecurityAgriculture & FoodTransport & LogisticsEducation & TrainingFinancial & Professional ServicesWater & EnvironmentManufacturing & SupplyMining & Metals

Or browse all tenders in India.