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Electronics and instrumentation tenders in India: what is open, who buys and where
Sensors, controls, test equipment and panels for PSUs, labs and the forces. On 4 October 2026, 966 electronics and instrumentation tenders were open on the portals ScanX reads, 508 of them closing within a week.
Where it is published
Where electronics and instrumentation tenders appear
GeM, the defence PSU portal, buyers' own tender sites, Defence eProcurement.
Electronics buying overlaps defence, research and utilities, which is why it needs rules by product rather than by buyer.
| Where it is published | GeM, the defence PSU portal (BEL among its PSUs), buyers' own tender sites, Defence eProcurement. |
|---|---|
| Typical buyers | Defence PSUs, laboratories, utilities' control rooms, the forces' signal units. |
| What a rules file covers | Sensors, controls, test and measurement equipment, panels and cable harnesses, with IT and office electronics excluded. |
| What the document adds | OEM authorisation and OEM turnover, which decide whether a reseller can bid at all. |
- 966
- open on 4 October 2026, each counted once across the portals ScanX reads
- 796
- published since 22 September 2026, on the portals that see every new tender
- 11.9
- days from publication to closing, the median over 796 of those tenders
- 508
- of the open tenders close within seven days
Measured 4 October 2026 at 02:13 IST
Open electronics and instrumentation 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GeM | 895 | 748 |
| CPPP | 39 | 35 |
| Defence eProcurement | 17 | Not counted |
| Buyers' own tender sites | 12 | 6 |
| CPWD eTender | 3 | 7 |
| Defence PSU eProcurement | 3 | Not counted |
| CPPP state tenders | 1 | Not counted |
| All portals, each tender once | 966 | 796 |
How each portal is read
- 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.
- 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.
- Defence eProcurement
- Read by closing date: a tender is held in its last seven days. 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.
- 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.
- Defence PSU eProcurement
- Seven defence PSUs on one NIC system, read by closing date two weeks ahead. Counted in Open now only.
- 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 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.
- Department of Military Affairs180
- Department of Atomic Energy142
- Department of Defence Production96
- Department of Heavy Industry50
- Department of Defence Research & Development49
- Department of Space37
- INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED36
- Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd30
Deadlines and deposits
- Closing this week
- 508 of the 966 open tenders close within seven days of 4 October 2026.
- Time to bid
- Half the 796 tenders published since 22 September 2026 gave 11.9 days or fewer between publication and closing.
- EMD
- Only 11 open tenders state an EMD amount in the listing, too few for a median.
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 sensors, transducers, transmitters, instruments and instrumentation, oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum, signal, network, gas and power analysers, test and measuring equipment, rigs and benches, calibration, PLC, SCADA and DCS, control panels, cards and units, data acquisition, PCBs, cable and wiring harnesses, electronic modules, cards and assemblies, FPGA, power supply units and SMPS, radar, sonar and antennas, avionics, pressure, level and flow gauges, flow meters, thermocouples and RTDs. Computers and office electronics, CCTV, software, and medical, dental and surgical equipment 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(sensors?|transducers?|transmitters?|instrumentation|instruments?|oscilloscopes?|multi ?meters?|spectrum analy[sz]ers?|signal generators?|network analy[sz]ers?|(test|testing|measuring|measurement) (equipment|benches?|rigs?|sets?|jigs?|instruments?|systems?)|calibrat\w*|plc|scada|dcs|control (panels?|cards?|units?)|data acquisition|daq|pcbs?|printed circuit\w*|(cable|wiring|wire) harness\w*|electronic (modules?|cards?|components?|assembl\w*|equipment|items?|systems?|units?)|electronics|fpga|power supply (units?|modules?)|power supplies|smps|radars?|sonars?|antennas?|avionics|(pressure|temperature|level|flow|vacuum|dial) gauges?|flow ?meters?|thermocouples?|rtds?|(gas|signal|power|vibration|network|spectrum) analy[sz]ers?)\MUnless the title matches
computers?|laptops?|desktops?|printers?|toners?|cartridges?|photocopiers?|projectors?|televisions?|\mtv\M|mobiles?|tablets?|cctv|software|surgical|musical|dental|medical|hospital|x-ray|ultrasound|ecg|blood - 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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