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Civil, marine and public works tenders in India: what is open, who buys and where
Buildings, fencing, marine structures, water and sewage works for central and defence buyers. On 4 October 2026, 1,997 civil, marine and public works tenders were open on the portals ScanX reads, 1,378 of them closing within a week.
Where it is published
Where civil, marine and public works tenders appear
CPWD, MES on Defence eProcurement, port authorities on GeM, CPPP.
Works contracts are published mostly by central and defence engineering services, with marine works split between ports and the Navy.
| Where it is published | CPWD eTender, MES on Defence eProcurement, port authorities on GeM (the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways stream), CPPP. |
|---|---|
| Typical buyers | CPWD divisions, garrison engineers, port authorities, naval works. |
| What a rules file covers | Buildings, fencing and security works, jetties and marine structures, water supply and sewage treatment. |
| What the document adds | For GeM service bids, experience and turnover floors; for CPWD, EMD from the listing. |
- 1,997
- open on 4 October 2026, each counted once across the portals ScanX reads
- 1,291
- published since 22 September 2026, on the portals that see every new tender
- 10.6
- days from publication to closing, the median over 1,291 of those tenders
- 46,952
- rupees, the median EMD of the 187 open tenders whose listing states an amount
Measured 4 October 2026 at 02:13 IST
Open civil, marine and public works tenders, portal by portal
Counts from ScanX's own store of what the portals published. Each row says how that portal is read, because some are read whole and some only in part.
| Portal | Open now | Published since 22 Sept |
|---|---|---|
| Defence eProcurement | 807 | Not counted |
| CPPP | 726 | 530 |
| GeM | 299 | 290 |
| CPWD eTender | 200 | 457 |
| CPPP state tenders | 46 | Not counted |
| Buyers' own tender sites | 18 | 13 |
| Defence PSU eProcurement | 9 | Not counted |
| CPPP ePublishing | 0 | 1 |
| All portals, each tender once | 1,997 | 1,291 |
How each portal is read
- Defence eProcurement
- Read by closing date: a tender is held in its last seven days. Counted in Open now only.
- CPPP
- A sample: about 250 tenders a weekday from the newest pages of a listing that carried about 31,000 live tenders when counted on 20 August 2026.
- GeM
- GeM's whole bid feed, read hourly since 22 September 2026. Bids published before then are held in full only for a few departments, so counts of older bids understate the market.
- CPWD eTender
- Read hourly since 8 September 2026, EMD included. CPWD gives no publication date, so the hour ScanX first read a tender stands in for one.
- CPPP state tenders
- A sample: the first 50 tenders of each closing day, a week ahead. Read by closing date, so counted in Open now only.
- Buyers' own tender sites
- Buyers that publish on their own sites rather than the national portals. Each site's public tender list is read whole, from the day its reader was added in September 2026. Where a site gives no publication date, the hour ScanX first read a tender stands in.
- Defence PSU eProcurement
- Seven defence PSUs on one NIC system, read by closing date two weeks ahead. Counted in Open now only.
- CPPP ePublishing
- The first page of the ePublishing listing, every run.
Buyers with the most open tenders
As each portal names the buyer. GeM names the department, Defence eProcurement the head of the unit chain. Buyers read from their own tender sites are counted in the totals, not ranked here.
- E-IN-C BRANCH - MILITARY ENGINEER SERVICES1,023
- Department of Military Affairs82
- MADHYANCHAL VIDYUT VITARAN NIGAM LIMITED LUCKNOW27
- IHQ of MoD (Army)-(OSCC)24
- DG, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force22
- Ministry of Road Transport and Highways21
- Employees State Insurance Corporation20
- Department of Defence19
Deadlines and deposits
- Closing this week
- 1,378 of the 1,997 open tenders close within seven days of 4 October 2026.
- Time to bid
- Half the 1,291 tenders published since 22 September 2026 gave 10.6 days or fewer between publication and closing.
- EMD
- 200 open tenders state EMD in the listing, all on CPWD and one buyer's own site, the only listings that carry it. 13 ask none, and the median of the rest is Rs 46,952.
Method
How these figures were counted
Measured 4 October 2026 at 02:13 IST from the store the collector writes every hour. This page is rebuilt from a new snapshot, and every figure on it moves with the next one.
- Counted by title
- Titles that mention construction, civil works or repairs, building works, repairs to buildings, roads, roofs or quarters, special or annual repairs, renovation, fencing and boundary, compound or retaining walls, jetties, wharves, berths, breakwaters, dredging, sea walls and marine works, water supply, sewage and sewerage, STP, WTP, effluent and water treatment plants, bore and tube wells, overhead tanks, culverts and bridge works, drainage, pavements, bituminous and CC roads, road works, waterproofing, and M&R or B&R works. Capacity building, team building, material testing and tableaux are left out.
The exact pattern
PostgreSQL regular expressions, matched without regard to case. \m and \M mark the start and end of a word.
Title matches
\m(construction|constructing|civil works?|civil (maintenance|repairs?)|building works?|repairs? (to|of) (\w+ ){0,3}(buildings?|bldgs?|roads?|roofs?|quarters)|special repairs?|annual repairs?|renovation|fencing|boundary walls?|compound walls?|retaining walls?|jett(y|ies)|wharfs?|berths?|breakwaters?|dredging|sea ?walls?|marine (works?|structures?)|water supply|sewage|sewerage|sewer lines?|stp|wtp|effluent treatment|water treatment plants?|bore ?wells?|tube ?wells?|overhead (tanks?|reservoirs?)|culverts?|bridges? (works?|construction|repairs?)|(construction|repairs?|maintenance) (of|to) (\w+ ){0,3}bridges?|foot ?over ?bridges?|drainage|storm water drains?|pavements?|bituminous|cc roads?|road works?|roads? (construction|repairs?|works?|widening|strengthening)|waterproofing|m ?& ?r|b ?& ?r|b/r)\MUnless the title matches
capacity building|team building|construction materials? testing|tableau - Open now
- A closing date after the moment of measurement, on every portal ScanX reads. CPPP state tenders, Defence eProcurement and Defence PSU eProcurement are read by closing date, so a tender there is held only in its last week or two, and their open counts are the tenders closing soonest.
- Published since 22 September 2026
- Only portals that see every new tender count: GeM, CPPP, CPPP ePublishing, CPWD eTender and buyers' own tender sites. The window starts on 22 September 2026, the day ScanX began reading GeM's whole feed, and will grow to 90 days as the store does. CPPP's figure is a sample, as its note above says.
- Days to close
- From the publication date to the closing date as last read, so an extension already published counts. CPWD and some buyers' own sites publish no date, so the hour ScanX first read a tender stands in.
- Counted once
- A procurement listed on two portals counts once in every total, joined on its reference number with case, spacing and punctuation removed. GeM reverse auctions that follow an earlier bid are left out, because only that bid's qualified bidders may take part.
- Not read
- These are counts of what ScanX reads, not of every tender in India. ScanX does not read IREPS, municipal portals or state portals outside GePNIC, and on GeM it reads the listing, not every bid document.
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Terms and questions that come up in these bids
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