Award queue — tenders closed with no award yet

Closed with no award

Closed in the 365 days to each month-end, no award dated by then · totals from Dec 2025

Solid line: public tenders. Dashed line: direct purchases. Count at each month-end. The last two points are provisional, because some awards are recorded late. Source: Etimad records, read by Daall.

Month	No award	Public tender	Direct purchase	0–90 days	91–180 days	181–365 days	Marked cancelled	Not counted, no identifier

Age counts from the closing date. * Provisional. For reference, among tenders closed in 2023–2024, before the comparable period: about 11% have no award, and of those awarded, 95% of public tenders came within 265 days of closing and 95% of direct purchases within 163. The oldest band is therefore mostly tenders that will not be awarded.

Awarded within 180 days of closing

By closing month · shown once 180 days have passedawq_cohorts.csv →

Solid line: public tenders. Dashed line: direct purchases.

Closing month	Public tenders	Within 90 days	Within 180 days	Median days	Direct purchases	Within 90 days	Within 180 days	Median days

Median days counts only tenders awarded within 180 days of closing. A month's figure appears once its window has passed. * Provisional: the window ended less than 45 days before the release.

By sector group

Latest month · eight Tadawul industry groups, mapping version 1awq_sectors.csv →

Index	Industry group	No award	Closed within 180 days

Tenders in activities outside the eight groups are in the total and not in this table. There is no buyer table.

Definition and limits

Descriptive · full definition

Who counts. Public tenders and direct purchases with an Etimad identifier and a closing date, leaving out those whose status says awarded before the award record arrives. Rows without an identifier cannot be followed to an award. They were thousands a quarter up to 2024 Q4, so no queue or conversion figure starts before January 2025. They are fewer now but not gone: — at the latest month, in the table.

Cancelled tenders are counted. Cancellation is almost unrecorded for tenders before September 2026: only — of the December 2025 queue are marked, against — at the latest month, because recording began, not because cancelling rose. Leaving them out would make the queue fall for that reason alone, so all stay in, and the table shows how many are marked.

Past points are not what could be known then. They use awards dated later. Each release is archived, so readings as known at the time build up from here.

Counts ignore size, since contract value is not known before award. A growing queue can mean more purchasing or slower awarding, and this page does not decide between them. T8, which tests whether the queue leads award value, is in the registration and has no result yet; results of other tests are on the Evidence page.