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Every contract the World Bank finances ends with a public award notice: who won, at what price, how many firms bid, and why the others were set aside. Award Radar reads every one of them for 18 countries each morning and puts them in plain tables, so a small firm can bid with the same knowledge as the big ones.
6,721
World Bank contract awards in 18 Southern and East African countries in the last 12 months
4,816
local firms named as bidders. 4,482 of them won nothing in that year.
46%
of the bids set aside fell on paperwork: non-responsive, ineligible, non-compliant, late or unsigned.
53%
missed the minimum technical score: key experts and methodology.
Pick a country
Kenya
347 awards in 12 months
Uganda
264 awards in 12 months
Tanzania
313 awards in 12 months
Rwanda
350 awards in 12 months
Ethiopia
2931 awards in 12 months
Zambia
211 awards in 12 months
Zimbabwe
1 awards in 12 months
Malawi
504 awards in 12 months
Mozambique
477 awards in 12 months
South Africa
22 awards in 12 months
Botswana
4 awards in 12 months
Namibia
9 awards in 12 months
Lesotho
171 awards in 12 months
Eswatini
69 awards in 12 months
Burundi
268 awards in 12 months
Madagascar
714 awards in 12 months
Somalia
Awards, winners and prices
South Sudan
66 awards in 12 months
What these numbers mean for your next bid
Many bids never reach the price comparison. 46% of the bids set aside in the last year fell on paperwork: eligibility, missing or unsigned documents, late submission, bid security. Bid Check reviews your pack against the tender's own requirements before you submit.
The rest is the technical score. 53% missed the minimum technical score. Key experts' CVs in the funder's format and a methodology that answers the terms of reference carry most of those points.
Foreign winners need local partners. 203 awards in the year went to firms from outside the region. Those are your teaming and subcontracting conversations.
Source: World Bank Contract Award notices (public), counted by DeskOS on 2026-11-15. Losing firms are never named on DeskOS pages.