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Facility services, AMC and manpower tenders in India: what is open and who buys
Annual maintenance, operation and maintenance and manpower contracts, separated from supply. On 4 October 2026, 3,120 AMC, maintenance and manpower tenders were open on the portals ScanX reads, 1,677 of them closing within a week.
Where it is published
Where AMC, maintenance and manpower tenders appear
Every source, sorted by contract form rather than by what is bought.
Maintenance and service contracts are a different business from supply even when the equipment is the same, so ScanX judges the contract form separately from what is bought.
| Where it is published | Every source. The contract form, not the portal, is what separates it. |
|---|---|
| Typical buyers | Every buyer that owns plant: stations, campuses, hospitals, defence establishments. |
| What a rules file covers | Annual maintenance, operation and maintenance and manpower contracts, matched as a contract form so a firm can take O&M of solar plants without taking every solar supply bid. |
| What the document adds | Contract period, manpower and experience asked. |
- 3,120
- open on 4 October 2026, each counted once across the portals ScanX reads
- 3,342
- published since 22 September 2026, on the portals that see every new tender
- 11
- days from publication to closing, the median over 3,342 of those tenders
- 15,946
- rupees, the median EMD of the 90 open tenders whose listing states an amount
Measured 4 October 2026 at 02:13 IST
Open AMC, maintenance and manpower 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 | 2,851 | 3,027 |
| CPPP | 128 | 117 |
| CPWD eTender | 89 | 197 |
| Defence eProcurement | 45 | Not counted |
| Buyers' own tender sites | 9 | 2 |
| Defence PSU eProcurement | 3 | Not counted |
| CPPP state tenders | 2 | Not counted |
| CPPP ePublishing | 0 | 1 |
| All portals, each tender once | 3,120 | 3,342 |
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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Department of Military Affairs452
- Department of Atomic Energy167
- Department of Defence Production116
- Indian Railways81
- Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation Limited76
- Department of School Education and Literacy75
- INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED72
- Department of Revenue68
Deadlines and deposits
- Closing this week
- 1,677 of the 3,120 open tenders close within seven days of 4 October 2026.
- Time to bid
- Half the 3,342 tenders published since 22 September 2026 gave 11 days or fewer between publication and closing.
- EMD
- 90 open tenders state EMD in the listing, all on CPWD and one buyer's own site, the only listings that carry it. The median is Rs 15,946.
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 name a service contract: AMC and CAMC, annual or comprehensive maintenance, maintenance contracts, operation and maintenance or O&M, running and day to day maintenance, manpower and outsourcing, housekeeping, facility management, security services and guards, upkeep and caretaking, cleaning and sanitation services, disinfection, hiring of manpower, horticulture services and mechanised cleaning.
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(amc|camc|annual maintenance|comprehensive maintenance|maintenance contracts?|operation (and|&) maintenance|operating (and|&) maintenance|running (and|&) maintenance|day to day maintenance|o ?& ?m|manpower|man power|outsourc\w*|housekeeping|house keeping|facility management|security (services?|guards?|manpower|agency)|upkeep|caretaking|cleaning (services?|contracts?)|cleaning,? sanitation|sanitation (services?|works?)|disinfection services?|hiring of manpower|horticulture (services?|maintenance|works?)|mechani[sz]ed cleaning)\M - 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
Each term has its own page with the rule behind it. Each question is answered from the rule or measurement that settles it.
Questions
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