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Government Tenders by State

Every Indian state and union territory, with live notices from state departments, municipal corporations, boards, and the central ministries and PSUs operating there. Avsar indexes 40,962 open tenders across them right now.
States & UTs
39
Live tenders
40,962
Estimated value
₹46186.63 Cr
Districts covered
172

Not tied to one state

40,196 live
All India tendersCentral ministries, PSUs and national bodies whose notices name no single state, either because the work is nationwide or because delivery is to more than one location. 40,196 open right now, the largest single group on Avsar.

North India

10 regions · 312 live

West India

4 regions · 51 live

South India

6 regions · 182 live

East India

4 regions · 99 live

Central India

2 regions · 62 live

North East India

8 regions · 40 live

Islands India

2 regions · 0 live

Know which of these you can actually win

Avsar reads the tender document, checks every state notice against your turnover, completed work and certificates, and tells you whether to bid, citing the clause it read. Free to search.

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Avsar never submits a bid for you and never asks for your digital signature certificate.

Pick your state below. Each card opens that state's live tender list: every open notice Avsar holds for that geography, from state departments, municipal corporations, boards and zilla parishads, along with the central ministries, railway zones and public sector undertakings that buy work inside it. States and union territories are grouped by region, and the figure on each card is notices still open for bidding, not a historical total.

What sits inside a state tender list

A state page is a geography, not a department. Three different sets of buyers publish work located inside the same state, and each publishes somewhere else.

  • State government departments. Public works, water supply and jal nigam, irrigation, rural development, health and education, tendering on the state's own e-procurement portal.
  • Local and parastatal bodies. Municipal corporations, development authorities, zilla parishads, housing boards and electricity distribution companies, most of them on that same state portal.
  • Central buyers operating in the state. Railway zones on IREPS, Defence, CPWD and the large PSUs on their own systems, plus routine purchases made on GeM by any central office located there.

So a road contract in Nagpur might belong to Maharashtra PWD, to the municipal corporation, to NHAI or to Central Railway, and no single portal carries all four. The state page collapses them into one list ordered by closing date. If you would rather slice the same notices differently, portals groups them by where they were published and organisations by who is buying.

Where state procurement differs from central procurement

Central purchases run under the General Financial Rules 2017, and it is central ministries, departments and public sector enterprises that are bound by the Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprises 2012. States sit outside that policy. Several legislate their own procurement statutes, such as the Tamil Nadu Transparency in Tenders Act 1998, the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurements Act 1999 and the Rajasthan Transparency in Public Procurement Act 2012, while others work from state financial codes and departmental manuals.

Three consequences show up in an actual bid:

  • MSE relief is not uniform. EMD exemption and tender fee waiver depend on what that notice grants. A state department may offer its own MSE scheme, a narrower one, or none. Read the clause rather than the habit. See MSME benefits in government tenders and the 25 percent MSE target.
  • Registration class is state-issued and caps the tender value you may bid for, which catches firms bidding outside their home state. See contractor registration classes.
  • Local conditions vary, from a registered office in the state to a state labour registration, and they live in the notice, not in any general rule.

Choosing which state lists to watch

Work outward from where you can actually deliver, not from where the tender count is highest.

  1. Your home state first. This is where your registration, your completion certificates and your relationships already sit, and where a site visit costs a morning.
  2. Adjacent states only if you can service the site. Moving labour and plant across a border is a real cost that belongs in the rate, not in optimism. How to price a government tender covers where it goes.
  3. Check the registration position before you add a state. Some departments want enrolment before bidding, some allow it after award. The notice says which.
  4. Treat central buyers as national. A CPWD, NHAI, railway or PSU notice is governed by the same central rules wherever the site is, so geography costs you less on those than on state works.
  5. Cap the list by bid capacity. Every live bid locks EMD. Run the bid capacity calculator and add states only up to what your working capital carries.

Then filter hard. Tender alerts worth having and the bid or no-bid framework are the two habits that keep a multi-state watchlist readable.

What the list tells you, and what only the document can

A published notice carries the buyer, the work description, the notice number, the portal and the dates. It does not carry the eligibility criteria, the EMD, the guarantee percentages or the special conditions. Those are inside the tender document, and on state work they are exactly where the state-to-state differences hide.

That is the gap Avsar is built to close. It reads the document, extracts the eligibility criteria, checks each one against your company record, and cites the clause and the page for every verdict, so a "not eligible" comes with the line that says so. It tracks EMD and performance guarantees across your live bids so you know what capital is committed before you commit more. See eligibility checks and EMD and guarantee tracking.

Avsar does not submit bids and does not hold your digital signature certificate. That stays with your authorised signatory, on your token. If you prefer to do the reading yourself, how to read a tender document sets out the same order of clauses and is free.

Frequently asked questions

How do I find government tenders in my state?

Open your state from the list above. The page carries every live notice Avsar has indexed for that geography, drawn from the state's own e-procurement portal, from NIC's Central Public Procurement Portal and from GeM, and you can narrow it by category, buyer and closing date from there. If you want the method rather than the list, how to find government tenders sets out where Indian public tenders are published and how to filter down to the ones you can actually qualify for.

Which portal does my state publish its tenders on?

Every state and union territory runs an e-procurement portal, most of them on NIC's platform. Maharashtra publishes on mahatenders.gov.in, Uttar Pradesh on etender.up.nic.in, Delhi on govtprocurement.delhi.gov.in, and so on. State departments, municipal corporations and boards use that portal, while central ministries, the Railways, Defence and the PSUs use their own systems alongside GeM. The portals directory lists each one with the buyers publishing on it, so you can see which portals your category actually appears on.

Can a contractor registered in one state bid for tenders in another state?

Usually yes. A public tender is open to any bidder who meets the conditions in the notice, and being from outside the state is not a bar by itself. Two things decide it in practice. First, registration: many state works departments expect enrolment in a recognised class, and the notice states whether an outside firm may complete that after being declared successful. Second, conditions written into that particular notice, such as a registered office or a GST registration in the state. Both sit in the tender document, so check the eligibility criteria before you commit an EMD.

Do state pages include municipal corporation and local body tenders?

Yes, where those bodies publish on the state e-procurement portal, which most municipal corporations, development authorities, zilla parishads and boards now do. Avsar indexes NIC's Central Public Procurement Portal, the state portals NIC aggregates and GeM. A body running a separate procurement website outside all three is not indexed. If your business depends on one particular buyer, check organisations to confirm its notices are already coming through before you rely on the alerts.

Does the state list show the EMD amount and eligibility criteria?

Not from the list feed. A published notice gives the buyer, the work, the portal and the dates. EMD, eligibility criteria and guarantee percentages live inside the tender document. Avsar reads that document, pulls the criteria out, checks them against your company record with the clause and page cited, and tracks EMD and performance guarantees so you know how much capital is tied up across live bids. The EMD calculator is free if you only need the arithmetic.

How often do the live counts on this page change?

Avsar refreshes from the source portals every minute, and the number against each state counts notices still open for bidding. It falls as deadlines pass and rises as new notices are published, so the same state can look busy on a Monday and thin on a Friday. Corrigenda are picked up the same way, which matters because a corrigendum can move a closing date or change a condition after you have downloaded the document. Feed health is published on status.