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Mechanical, fabrication and machining tenders in India: what is open and who buys
Valves, pumps, gearboxes, hydraulics, castings, forgings and work to drawing. On 4 October 2026, 1,887 mechanical, fabrication and machining tenders were open on the portals ScanX reads, 1,049 of them closing within a week.
Where it is published
Where mechanical, fabrication and machining tenders appear
GeM item lists and bid documents, shipyards, ordnance units, research labs.
Mechanical and machined parts are where keyword search fails most often. GeM cuts titles at 99 characters, and many bids are titled only with a stores code, so the words that matter are in the item list or the document.
| Where it is published | GeM above all, then the defence PSU portal, buyers' own tender sites and Defence eProcurement. |
|---|---|
| Typical buyers | Shipyards, dockyards, ordnance units, research laboratories, heavy engineering PSUs. |
| What a rules file covers | Valves, pumps, gearboxes and reducers, fittings, flanges and fasteners, hydraulics and pneumatics, castings, forgings and machining to drawing. |
| What the document adds | ScanX reads GeM's full item list past the title limit, and reads the document first when a title is only codes. This is also where Worth a look earns its keep, by finding work to drawing no keyword named. |
- 1,887
- open on 4 October 2026, each counted once across the portals ScanX reads
- 1,651
- published since 22 September 2026, on the portals that see every new tender
- 11
- days from publication to closing, the median over 1,651 of those tenders
- 12,604
- rupees, the median EMD of the 45 open tenders whose listing states an amount
Measured 4 October 2026 at 02:13 IST
Open mechanical, fabrication and machining 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 | 1,612 | 1,390 |
| CPPP | 150 | 146 |
| Defence eProcurement | 64 | Not counted |
| CPWD eTender | 45 | 105 |
| Buyers' own tender sites | 21 | 10 |
| Defence PSU eProcurement | 7 | Not counted |
| CPPP state tenders | 6 | Not counted |
| CPPP ePublishing | 0 | 1 |
| All portals, each tender once | 1,887 | 1,651 |
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.
- 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.
- 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 Defence Production296
- Department of Military Affairs262
- Department of Atomic Energy188
- Department of Heavy Industry172
- E-IN-C BRANCH - MILITARY ENGINEER SERVICES84
- Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd73
- INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED66
- Department of Defence43
Deadlines and deposits
- Closing this week
- 1,049 of the 1,887 open tenders close within seven days of 4 October 2026.
- Time to bid
- Half the 1,651 tenders published since 22 September 2026 gave 11 days or fewer between publication and closing.
- EMD
- 53 open tenders state EMD in the listing, all on CPWD and one buyer's own site, the only listings that carry it. 8 ask none, and the median of the rest is Rs 12,604.
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 valves, pumps and pump sets, gearboxes, reducers and reduction gears, hydraulics and hydraulic systems, pneumatics, actuators, air and high pressure compressors, castings, forgings, machining, fabrication, work as per drawing, flanges, fasteners, couplings, impellers, heat exchangers or pressure vessels. Titles that also mention VRLA batteries, medical or hand pumps, tyre valves, fuel injection pumps, vehicles, vehicle makes or MT spares, trucks, tractors, motorcycles or drones 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(valves?|pumps?|pump ?sets?|pumping sets?|gear ?box(es)?|reducers?|reduction gears?|hydraulics?|hydraulic (systems?|cylinders?|power packs?|motors?|actuators?|equipment|components?|units?)|pneumatics?|pneumatic (systems?|cylinders?|actuators?)|actuators?|air compressors?|(hp|high pressure|reciprocating|screw) compressors?|castings?|forgings?|forged|machining|machined|fabrication|fabricated|as per (drawing|drg|dwg)|to drawing|flanges?|fasteners?|couplings?|impellers?|heat exchangers?|pressure vessels?)\MUnless the title matches
valve regulated|vrla|infusion pumps?|syringe pumps?|breast pumps?|insulin pumps?|feeding pumps?|tyre valves?|tube valves?|hand ?pumps?|india mark|fuel injection pumps?|bicycle|aquarium|vehicles?|\mmt\M spares?|motor transport|\mtata\M|leyland|maruti|mahindra|gypsy|trucks?|tractors?|motor ?cycles?|scooters?|drones? - 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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