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Where to find live tenders

We track the major structured procurements, not every notice. For the live day-to-day feed, these are the portals that actually carry it: the procuring bodies themselves, the development banks that finance much of the region's water, and the commercial trackers that cover the rest.

Links checked at each site build. Last checked: 29 September 2026.

Gulf procurers

The client organisations themselves. For the big PPPs this is the primary source: the pipeline pages and tender notices here are what the trade press reports from.

Saudi Arabia

Sharakat (Saudi Water Partnership Company)

The Saudi water PPP programme: IWPs, ISTPs, transmission pipelines and strategic storage, with a project list and developer qualification programme.

Access: Free account for tender documents

Open portal
Saudi Arabia

Etimad — Saudi government procurement

The national e-procurement platform. Everything the Saudi public sector tenders outside the PPP programme passes through here, including NWC and municipal water works.

Access: Registration required

Open portal
Saudi Arabia

National Water Company (NWC)

Urban water and wastewater operations, network and NRW framework contracts.

Access: Supplier registration

Open portal
United Arab Emirates

EWEC — Emirates Water & Electricity Company

Abu Dhabi's single buyer. Expressions of interest and RFPs for the independent water projects that set the region's benchmark tariffs.

Access: Open; EOI submission by invitation

Open portal
United Arab Emirates

DEWA supplier & tender portal

Dubai's utility: IPP/BOO opportunities plus network, metering and O&M tenders.

Access: Supplier registration

Open portal
Oman

Nama Power & Water Procurement (OPWP)

Oman's sole buyer. The Seven-Year Statement published here is the single best forward view of Omani water procurement.

Access: Open (statements are public PDFs)

Open portal
Kuwait

KAPP — Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects

Kuwait's PPP unit: the IWPP and wastewater concessions, with qualification and RFP milestones.

Access: Open; prequalification required to bid

Open portal
Qatar

Ashghal — Qatar Public Works Authority

The largest infrastructure client in Qatar: sewerage, drainage, treatment and reuse packages.

Access: Supplier registration

Open portal
Qatar

Kahramaa

Qatar's water and electricity utility and single buyer: IWPP tenders and network frameworks.

Access: Supplier registration

Open portal
Bahrain

Electricity & Water Authority (EWA)

Bahrain's production and distribution utility: IWPP and EPC opportunities.

Access: Supplier registration

Open portal

Levant & North Africa

State utilities and national e-procurement platforms. Much of the capital work here is donor-financed, so also check the multilateral portals below for the same projects.

Tunisia

SONEDE

Tunisia's national potable-water utility: treatment, network and desalination tenders, many donor co-financed.

Access: Open

Open portal
Algeria

Algérienne des Eaux (ADE)

Algeria's national water utility: works, rehabilitation and O&M.

Access: Open

Open portal
Morocco

Marchés Publics — Morocco

Morocco's national public procurement portal. ONEE, the basin agencies and the municipal operators all publish here.

Access: Free account

Open portal
Turkey

EKAP — Türkiye public procurement platform

Every DSİ, İller Bankası and metropolitan utility tender in Türkiye. Turkish-language.

Access: Registration required

Open portal
Palestine

Palestinian Water Authority

Donor-financed water and wastewater programmes in the West Bank and Gaza.

Access: Open

Open portal

Donor & multilateral portals

Where the money is, the notice usually is too. For Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine and the Maghreb these feeds carry more genuine water opportunity than any national portal.

Regional

World Bank procurement notices

General procurement notices, specific notices and contract awards for every Bank-financed operation. Free, searchable, and the single most complete public feed for borrower countries.

Access: Open

Open portal
Regional

World Bank eProcurement (STEP / RFx)

The live bidding platform for Bank-financed contracts.

Access: Free account

Open portal
Regional

UNGM — United Nations Global Marketplace

All UN agency procurement in one place. Dominant for Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Palestine, where UNICEF, UNDP and UNOPS contract most of the water work.

Access: Free account

Open portal
Regional

EBRD ECEPP

Client-executed tenders for EBRD-financed municipal water and wastewater projects, strong on Türkiye, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.

Access: Free account

Open portal
Regional

EBRD procurement

Guidance, rules and the notice search behind ECEPP.

Access: Open

Open portal
Regional

Islamic Development Bank

Project procurement notices for IsDB-financed water and sanitation operations across its member countries.

Access: Open

Open portal
Regional

African Development Bank

Procurement notices for North African water, sanitation and irrigation operations.

Access: Open

Open portal
Regional

AIIB project procurement

Notices for AIIB-financed infrastructure, including water in its Middle East member countries.

Access: Open

Open portal
Regional

European Investment Bank

Promoter-executed procurement for EIB-financed water infrastructure across the southern Mediterranean.

Access: Open

Open portal
Regional

dgMarket

Aggregates donor-financed tender notices from most multilateral and bilateral agencies in one search.

Access: Free tier; paid alerts

Open portal

Commercial trackers

Paid platforms with genuinely complete regional coverage, including the Gulf. If you need every notice rather than the strategic picture, this is where to spend the budget. We do not attempt to compete with them.

Regional

MEED Projects

The reference database for Middle East construction and infrastructure: project pipelines, contract awards, bidder lists and contacts.

Access: Subscription

Open portal
Regional

Zawya Projects

Project intelligence and tender tracking across MENA, with strong coverage of utilities and contract awards.

Access: Subscription

Open portal
Regional

BNC Network

Gulf-focused project intelligence: pre-tender, tender and award stages across construction and utilities, with a searchable project database.

Access: Subscription

Open portal
Regional

Ventures Onsite

Project tracking across the GCC and wider MENA, including water and wastewater packages, with contractor attribution.

Access: Subscription

Open portal
Regional

GlobalTenders — water

Aggregated public tender notices filtered to the water sector; broad geographic reach and shallower detail than the specialists above.

Access: Subscription (free preview)

Open portal
Regional

TendersInfo

Global tender aggregator with MENA coverage; useful as a second net rather than a primary source.

Access: Subscription

Open portal
A note on completeness. No free source covers this market fully. The Gulf PPP programmes publish through their own procurers; donor-financed work in the Levant and North Africa surfaces on the multilateral portals; the rest sits behind paid subscriptions. Anyone telling you they have all of it in one free feed is selling something.