Free tool
How many working days
before this tender closes?
Pick the buyer's market and the closing date on the notice. You get the working days left, counted in the buyer's week, and the last two weeks laid out day by day. Free, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
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Enter the closing date from the notice.
Public holidays are not counted here. The bid desk counts expected Hijri holidays. Always confirm a deadline against the notice.
Every deadline, on one desk
Ishara keeps this beside your bid tasks, for every tender you track from Qatar, the UAE (federal and Ajman), Bahrain and Oman.
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On the bid desk
The count, kept for you on every tender
Track a tender in Ishara and its page opens with a decision bar on the buyer's clock: the time left in the buyer's working week, skipping expected Hijri holidays, beside your bid tasks, notes and files. Needs you on Today flags the bids that are close, and a strip shows closings by day for the next 14 days.
Ministry of Services
Contact-centre automation
- Track
- Qualify
- Prepare
- Submitted on the portal
- Result
Your bid tasks
- Read the scope and the evaluation criteria (done)
- Price the Arabic voice line with Rana · due Sunday
- Prepare the bid bond and company documents
Should we bid?
The last award for this buyer drew 4 bidders · price guide from published bids
Why count in the buyer's working days
A tender that closes "in three weeks" can hold fewer working days than it seems once two weekends and a public holiday fall inside it, and the buyer's week may not be your week: a team in the UAE bidding to a buyer in Doha, Manama or Muscat works on a Friday the buyer does not. Counting in the buyer's week shows how many days the bid team really has to read, price, write and get the bond in.
Work backwards from the closing day: leave the last working day for submission on the portal, put the bond and company documents a few days before it, and give pricing its own deadline. The bid pipeline lesson covers the stages, and the bid pipeline calculator how many tenders your target needs.
Frequently asked questions
Does the calculator count public holidays?
No. It counts weekends only, in the buyer's working week. The bid desk in Ishara also skips expected Hijri holidays. Always confirm a deadline against the notice.
Which weekends does it use?
Friday and Saturday for buyers in Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, and Saturday and Sunday for buyers in the UAE. Pick the buyer's market, not your own.
How is the count made?
From the day after the start date up to and including the closing day, every day that is not a weekend in the buyer's market counts as one working day. The closing time on the notice still matters: a noon deadline leaves half of the last day.
Is anything I type stored or sent?
No. The count runs in your browser on this page. Nothing you enter is stored, transmitted or logged.
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Every deadline on the buyer's clock,
for every tender you track.
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