The Asian Development Bank (ADB) officially opened a new subregional office to oversee operations in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau. Currently, the ADB manages an active public sector portfolio of $320.5 million across 34 regional projects. This permanent...
MANILA / HONIARA — Asia-Pacific procurement accelerated through June 2026. The APACTenders platform recorded over 1,600 active tenders across construction, technology, energy, and professional services. The month’s defining story was the Asian Development Bank’s overhauled procureme...
MANILA — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) just tore up the traditional playbook for winning mega-infrastructure contracts in Southeast Asia. For decades, foreign consortia and state-backed builders relied on a simple formula to win multi-billion-dollar transit pipelines. They dropped the p...
High-budget infrastructure and civil works Aloysius* surveys the formwork deck of the new Honiara Port as the sun sets over Iron Bottom Sound. The last concrete pour is curing, the rebar is sweating in the humid air, and the site team are bantering about who is heading to the next big job—wheth...
A quiet shift is happening across Asia Pacific procurement desks this week. While individual agencies are dealing with their own stack of requests for proposals (RFPs), the broader market is focused on three clear goals: cutting down the administrative time it takes to award a contract, pushing m...