Markets · The UAE
Government tenders in the UAE,
federal and emirate buyers in one view.
For a UAE bid team selling to federal ministries and authorities, and to the emirates' own entities. See what is open, who awarded what before and which contracts come back next, in Arabic and English, in one workspace.
A work email reserves 5,000 credits ($50).
Arabic and English · Federal and emirate entities · One pipeline across six markets
Open tenders
Federal and emirate buyers, filtered in one click
Status, closing window, entity, sector and award value, each with a count beside it. Save the view and share it with the team by link.
How the UAE buys
One country, several layers of buyer
A UAE bid team sells to two kinds of government at once. Federal ministries and authorities buy for the country, while each emirate runs its own government departments, authorities and state-owned companies, with Abu Dhabi and Dubai the largest buyers. Tenders are published on a federal platform and on emirate systems, so the same team often watches several front doors.
The process itself is familiar: an announcement, a bid bond, technical review, then price. Buyers commonly expect suppliers to register with them before bidding, and to hold a UAE trade licence. In-country value programmes weigh local spend in parts of the market. The tender lifecycle lesson covers the shared mechanics.
- Who buys
- Federal ministries and authorities, emirate departments and state-owned companies
- Where tenders appear
- A federal platform and each emirate's own systems
- Who can bid
- Usually a UAE-licensed company registered with the buyer
- What Ishara adds
- Federal and emirate tenders in one list, in Arabic and English
Buyers and suppliers
Read the entity's buying history before you bid
Each government entity has a profile: awards by year, the sectors it buys in and the suppliers it awards to most. Each supplier has one too: its wins, the entities it serves and who bids beside it. Watch a buyer or a competitor and a dated feed tells you what changed. Track buyers and competitors.
Radar and benchmarks
Start the pursuit before the notice
The radar lists contracts ending inside your horizon, six to 24 months out, with the incumbent named on each. Benchmarks show how many bidders a tender like yours draws, where award values fall and how far the winner sits from the median, so a Dubai or Abu Dhabi team prices on the record. The recompete radar and bid benchmarks.
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Six markets
Bid in Abu Dhabi and Muscat from one pipeline
Government tenders across Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and the UAE, in the same views your team already keeps.
A supplier that bids across borders keeps one pipeline, one set of buyer profiles and one radar. Read the other markets: Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman, or take the tender intelligence tour.
The connected view
Connect the opportunity to its market.
A tender is the starting point. Bring the buyer, relevant market context and your relationship history into the same working picture.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Ishara cover emirate entities as well as federal ones?
Yes. Federal ministries and authorities sit beside the emirates' own government entities in one list, with a profile for each buyer, so a team that sells to both works from one view.
What does a supplier usually need to bid in the UAE?
Usually a UAE trade licence and a supplier registration with the buyer, and in parts of the market an in-country value certificate. Each tender's documents set the exact conditions.
Does Ishara help a UAE founder as well as a bid team?
Yes. The same workspace holds the investor directory of 32,822 investors, Find my investors with a reason beside every name, and the CRM the raise runs in.
Keep exploring
Where to go next.
Tender intelligence
Government tenders across six markets, with the buyers and award history.
Bid benchmarks
See who bids and what wins before you set a price.
For bid teams
Find, qualify and price government work across six markets.
Early-access pricing
Free, Pro and Business per seat. Enterprise is scoped with the team.
Your next UAE tender, with the buyer in view.
When your invite arrives, start from the federal and emirate entities your team already sells to.
Early access in waves · A work email reserves 5,000 credits ($50) · Arabic and English