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Solar and renewable energy tenders in India: what is open, who buys and where
Rooftop and ground mounted plants, supply, EPC and operation and maintenance. On 4 October 2026, 221 solar and renewable energy tenders were open on the portals ScanX reads, 138 of them closing within a week.
Where it is published
Where solar and renewable energy tenders appear
CPWD, GeM, CPPP, state nodal agencies and PSUs.
Solar tenders are easy to find and hard to sort: supply, EPC and operation and maintenance arrive under the same words, and a solar firm usually wants only one or two of the three.
| Where it is published | CPWD, GeM, CPPP, state nodal agencies and PSUs on GePNIC. |
|---|---|
| Typical buyers | Public works divisions, PSU townships, defence stations, state renewable agencies, universities and hospitals. |
| What a rules file covers | Rooftop and ground mounted plants, modules, inverters and balance of system, with the contract form (supply, turnkey or O&M) judged separately from what is bought. |
| What the document adds | Capacity, BOQ lines, reverse auction and EMD. Tenders that mention solar at all can route to a separate solar team, whatever category matched them. |
- 221
- open on 4 October 2026, each counted once across the portals ScanX reads
- 210
- published since 22 September 2026, on the portals that see every new tender
- 10.6
- days from publication to closing, the median over 210 of those tenders
- 34,060
- rupees, the median EMD of the 17 open tenders whose listing states an amount
Measured 4 October 2026 at 02:13 IST
Open solar and renewable energy 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 | 152 | 166 |
| Defence eProcurement | 32 | Not counted |
| CPPP | 21 | 17 |
| CPWD eTender | 17 | 27 |
| Buyers' own tender sites | 1 | 0 |
| All portals, each tender once | 221 | 210 |
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- Rural Development and Panchayats Department Jammu and Kashmir44
- E-IN-C BRANCH - MILITARY ENGINEER SERVICES39
- Department of Military Affairs14
- Department of Panchayati Raj9
- Department of Heavy Industry6
- Urban Development Department Uttar Pradesh5
- Forests and Environment Department Gujarat5
- Panchayats and Rural Housing Department Gujarat5
Deadlines and deposits
- Closing this week
- 138 of the 221 open tenders close within seven days of 4 October 2026.
- Time to bid
- Half the 210 tenders published since 22 September 2026 gave 10.6 days or fewer between publication and closing.
- EMD
- 17 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 34,060.
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 solar, photovoltaic or SPV, PV modules, plants, panels or systems, rooftop PV, a capacity in kWp or MWp, wind turbines, wind power or windmills, battery energy storage or BESS, net metering, renewable energy, biogas, or mini and small hydro.
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(solar|photovoltaic|spv|pv (modules?|plants?|panels?|systems?)|rooftop pv|kwp|mwp|wind (turbines?|energy|power|mills?)|windmills?|battery energy storage|bess|net meter\w*|renewable energy|biogas|bio-gas|mini hydro|small hydro)\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
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Questions
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