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Construction tenders across the Pacific Islands

Each Pacific Island government publishes its own tenders, most of them through a finance ministry or a central tender board. Fiji and Samoa run e-tendering portals on TenderLink for their finance ministries, Solomon Islands has a government tender portal, Vanuatu's Central Tender Board lists its tenders online, Tongan government notices appear on Matangi Tonga, and Timor-Leste publishes its tenders and requests for quotation on its eProcurement Portal. Packages funded by ADB, the World Bank, Australia and New Zealand are also advertised through the funders' own channels.

This page, checked in October 2026, sets out each country's publisher, the funders' channels, what Pacific bids have in common and how Bidligence watches the region. For Papua New Guinea, see PNG tenders. Portals and rules change, so confirm the submission method and requirements in each tender.

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Where each country publishes its tenders

As of October 2026, these are the official places to start. Some buyers take electronic bids and others accept hard copies only, so read each tender's submission instructions.

CountryMain publisherWhere to look
FijiFiji Procurement Office, Ministry of FinanceMinistry of Finance e-tendering portal
Solomon IslandsMinistries and provincial governments, with tender board approvalSolomon Islands Government tender portal
VanuatuCentral Tender Board, Ministry of Finance and Economic ManagementCentral Tender Board
SamoaMinistry of Finance and the Tenders BoardGovernment of Samoa e-procurement portal
TongaCentral Procurement Unit, Ministry of FinanceNotices on Matangi Tonga
Timor-LesteGovernment departments and institutionsTimor-Leste eProcurement Portal

Fiji

The Ministry of Finance's e-tendering portal, run on TenderLink, is where the Fiji Procurement Office publishes invitations to tender, proposals, expressions of interest and requests for quotation. The portal states that the office administers all Fiji Government tenders for goods, services and works valued at FJ$50,000 and above; ICT tenders are on a separate TenderLink site. Registration is free, and registered suppliers get e-mail notice of new opportunities, download documents, use the Q&A forums and submit bids through an electronic tender box.

Several Fijian public bodies tender separately. A March 2024 study for New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade listed their own e-tendering portals for the Fiji Roads Authority, the Water Authority of Fiji and Fiji Ports, and tender pages for the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji and Energy Fiji Limited.

Solomon Islands

The Solomon Islands Government tender portal lists current tenders from ministries and provincial governments, including construction, design and survey work, each with a tender ID and an expiry date.

Approvals run through tender boards under the Public Financial Management (Procurement) Regulations 2021 and the SIG Procurement and Contract Administration Manual 2022. As the Ministry of Finance and Treasury reminded vendors in November 2024, contracts from SBD 100,000 to SBD 500,000 need a Ministerial Tender Board's approval, and contracts above SBD 500,000 need the approval of both the Ministerial Tender Board and the Central Tender Board.

Vanuatu

The Central Tender Board sits under the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management. It coordinates the government's tender process where the purchase value exceeds VUV 10,000,000, and its stated mandate is to adjudicate and award tenders for central government and the other institutions named in the Act. Its tender list has carried works for the Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Utilities, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management and the Vanuatu Projects Management Unit, among others, and the site publishes the Government Contracts and Tenders legislation and its high-value and low-value procurement procedures. When checked in October 2026, most items on the list dated from 2024 and 2025, so confirm current tenders with the Board.

Samoa

The Monitoring Unit of the Ministry of Finance's procurement and monitoring division administers the Government of Samoa e-procurement portal and posts tenders there and on the ministry's website. It also runs weekly tender openings and keeps the records of the Tenders Board's weekly meetings. The portal advertises tenders and manages them through to contract award; registration is free and brings e-mail notice of new tenders, access to documents, Q&A forums and an electronic tender box.

Tonga

Tongan ministries' tenders can be run by the Central Procurement Unit of the Ministry of Finance, and the 2024 study found Tongan notices posted on Matangi Tonga. A May 2026 notice there for the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development shows the process: the unit as procuring entity, documents collected from its office in Nuku'alofa for a fee with no soft copies released, hard-copy bids only and a closing time stated in Tongan time. It cited the Public Procurement Regulations 2015 and their 2019 amendments.

Timor-Leste

The Timor-Leste eProcurement Portal is where government departments and institutions publish their procurement, tenders and requests for quotation alike, followed by the award: the vendor, the amount and any documents. It is open to the public, and anyone can download the tender documents.

The rules changed recently. Decree-Law No. 1/2025 approved a new Code for Procurement and Public Contracts, in force from 1 June 2025, which revoked the procurement regime of Decree-Law No. 22/2022; its implementing regulation was approved by Government Decree No. 1/2026 of 23 January.

Kiribati, Tuvalu and the smaller states

The 2024 study for New Zealand's foreign ministry listed a Central Procurement Unit tender list for Kiribati, a Government of Tuvalu e-tendering platform on TenderLink, and online procurement pages for the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau, while Tokelau's tenders run through New Zealand's GETS. It found no consolidated online platform for Nauru, Niue or the Marshall Islands; Nauru's procurement appeared to run through the Pacific Community and UNDP, and Marshall Islands notices appeared on the UNDP and World Bank platforms.

Donor-funded works in the Pacific

Packages financed by development partners and advertised internationally appear on the funder's own site as well as through the borrowing government. Development-bank tenders covers each funder in more detail, and the guide to World Bank bidding documents explains how their tenders are put together.

  • Asian Development Bank. ADB lists invitations for bids, advance notices and general procurement notices on its tenders page, which can be filtered by country, sector, type and status.
  • World Bank. World Bank-financed notices are on its procurement notices page, which offers e-mail alerts.
  • Australia. DFAT publishes its requests for tender on AusTender, and AusConnect lists subcontracting opportunities in the Australian Development Program.
  • New Zealand. MFAT's international development programme posts its open tenders on GETS, New Zealand's Government Electronic Tenders Service. MFAT notes that the programme's contracts range from building a renewable energy plant to improving literacy levels.
  • UN agencies. UNDP advertises on its own procurement notices site, and the 2024 study found notices for most Pacific countries on the UNDP or World Bank platforms.

Bidligence reads the multilateral sources listed below directly. ADB's site is not one of them because it blocks automated reading, so ADB-financed notices reach Bidligence when they also appear on UNGM, a national portal it reads or its nightly search. Notices from these sources that name a country you watch match like any other; Also watch multilateral notices adds all of them, including those that name no country.

Sources that returned tender notices to Bidligence in the last 30 days. The list updates itself.

  • World Bank — Procurement Notices
  • UNDP — Procurement Notices
  • TED — EU Tenders Electronic Daily (CPV 45)
  • UNGM — UN Global Marketplace

What Pacific bids have in common

The Pacific Infrastructure Market Research report, prepared for New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in March 2024 from contractors' own experience, reads as a checklist of what a Pacific bid has to price and prove:

  • Logistics. Contractors described work in the region as high-risk and high-cost because of geographic dispersion, the cost of mobilising resources and equipment, extreme weather and the political economy. Shipping and transport logistics that are not understood and priced properly can push a price too low, or too high.
  • Insurance and guarantees. Obtaining insurance was a significant barrier for all contractors and especially for Pacific-based ones, who also found finance guarantees hard to secure. Talk to your bank and insurer before the bid security falls due.
  • Qualification criteria. Years of experience for local personnel, recent financial turnover and insurance cover were the criteria contractors found hardest to meet. Read them before you price; the study found partnerships and joint ventures a useful route for small and medium Pacific contractors.
  • Price-based evaluation. Contractors saw ADB tenders in particular as price-focused, with the lowest priced offer often winning, so a realistic, fully built-up price matters.
  • Local content and inclusion. Tenders may set local-content and gender, disability and social inclusion requirements. Contractors found some did not match local conditions, so answer them specifically rather than with boilerplate.
  • Time zones and submission. Not from the study, but as easy to miss: closing times are stated in local time, from Dili to Nuku'alofa, and some buyers take electronic bids while others accept hard copies only.

A price that leaves out freight, mobilisation or the cost of guarantees is not competitive; it is wrong. How to price a BOQ walks through a rate build-up.

How Bidligence watches the Pacific

Bidligence's tender feed reads a curated registry of public procurement sources and matches new notices to your keywords, countries and minimum contract value. A source can only pass on what its page publishes: the Fiji and Samoa portals keep their documents behind a supplier log-on and Tongan notices run on a news site, so register on each portal you bid through, and add any public tender page or RSS feed you follow as a source of your own. New matches land in your inbox and, if you choose, in a daily or weekly e-mail digest, and Start bid turns a notice into a bid with its title, buyer, deadline and a link back to the original. The feed and saved searches are part of the free workspace; see tender alerts.

Bidligence reads these Pacific government tender lists directly; for the other countries, the nightly search below and your own sources do the work:

Sources that returned tender notices to Bidligence in the last 30 days. The list updates itself.

  • Vanuatu — Central Tenders BoardVanuatu

Pricing and checking a Pacific bid in Bidligence

Bidligence has no country profile for Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga or Timor-Leste. Their tenders are read against its global profile, which follows World Bank and FIDIC practice, and you can bid in the local currency: Fijian and Solomon Islands dollars, vatu, tala and pa'anga are among the 100 currencies it supports, alongside kina and the Australian, New Zealand and US dollars, with current exchange rates for reporting in your home currency.

Tender analysis reads the closing date with its time zone, so a Honiara or Nuku'alofa closing time stays in local time and the deadline reminders give it in local time. It also pulls out the bid security terms, bid validity, mandatory documents and returnable schedules, and the Submission Guard checks them against your Evidence Vault before you submit. On Pro, RFQ packages go to suppliers and subcontractors as a link that needs no account, and their quotes come back into a line-by-line comparison against your priced BOQ.

Questions

Where are Fiji government tenders published?
On the Ministry of Finance e-tendering portal on TenderLink, where the Fiji Procurement Office publishes tenders, proposals, expressions of interest and requests for quotation. The portal says the office administers Fiji Government tenders of FJ$50,000 and above, and registration is free.
How do Solomon Islands government tenders work?
Current tenders are listed on the Solomon Islands Government tender portal. Depending on the contract value, approval runs through a Ministerial Tender Board, the Central Tender Board or both, under the Public Financial Management (Procurement) Regulations 2021.
Can I submit Pacific tenders online?
It depends on the buyer. The Fiji and Samoa portals take electronic bids through an e-tender box, while a May 2026 Tongan notice accepted hard copies only. The tender's instructions to bidders are the final word.
Which Pacific countries does Bidligence's nightly search cover?
The list on this page shows the Pacific and Oceania countries it covers, out of 66 countries in all. It runs for the countries workspaces watch, so add yours to your watch profile.
Can I price a Pacific bid in local currency?
Yes. Fijian and Solomon Islands dollars, vatu, tala and pa'anga are among the 100 currencies Bidligence supports, with current exchange rates for reporting in your home currency.

Sources

Rules and portals change. Check the tender’s own documents and the official source before you rely on any of this.

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