Tenders in Mauritania: where to find them and which texts to read

Where Mauritania publishes public tenders

The website of Mauritania's public procurement regulator, the Autorité de Régulation des Marchés Publics (ARMP), at armp.mr, has a “Portail des marchés publics” button that leads to the Portail National des Marchés Publics (marchespublics.gov.mr). Start there for any contract tendered by a Mauritanian public body. The legal texts cited in this guide are published in French.

The portal's home page lists procurement plans (plans de passation des marchés, PPM), showing the contracting authority, the number of planned activities and the publication date. Its menus also cover general procurement notices (avis généraux de passation des marchés, AGPM) and annual purchasing plans. The portal offers a sign-up to receive published announcements by email.

Contracting authorities also post documents on their own websites. The Ministry of Finance, for example, publishes its purchasing plans under “Plans de passation”: as of 26 October 2026 it holds files for 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and none for 2023. Reading the plans of the ministries and agencies in your sector gives you an idea of what they intend to buy during the year.

For other countries, our list of official government procurement websites by country gives the equivalent addresses.

The texts to read and the bodies to know

The core text is Law No. 2021-024 of 29 December 2021 repealing and replacing Law No. 2010-044 of 22 July 2010 on the Public Procurement Code, published by the Ministry of Finance in French. A copy is also hosted on the national portal. According to its entry in the FAOLEX legal database (ECOLEX record), the law is organised in six titles, the first of which sets out its purpose, general principles and scope.

Three other texts complete the law:

• Decree No. 2022-083 of 8 June 2022, which implements Law No. 2021-024;
• Decree No. 2022-085 of 8 June 2022, on the organisation and operation of the ARMP;
• Order No. 0224 of 22 February 2023 setting public procurement thresholds, published in Official Journal No. 1528 of 28 February 2023 according to the Ministry of Finance's collection of procurement texts.

Complaint deadlines are short and, as a rule, counted in working days, excluding public holidays and weekends, according to the definitions in Law No. 2021-024. Under Article 127 of Decree No. 2022-083, a candidate or bidder who considers itself wronged may first file an amicable complaint with the contracting authority within four working days of the publication or notification of the contested decision, and the authority then has three working days to reply in writing. Under Article 55 of Law No. 2021-024, decisions of the procurement commissions (CPMP) may be challenged before the ARMP's dispute settlement committee (CRD) within five working days of their publication. Under Article 14 of the same law, CRD decisions may be appealed in court within ten working days of receipt of their notification, and the appeal does not suspend them. This guide does not summarise the thresholds or required documents: read the articles themselves in the law, the decree and the order, and the bidding document, before you bid.

Three bodies publish information that matters to bidders:

• The ARMP (armp.mr) describes its mission as “assurer la régulation du système de passation des marchés publics” (regulating the public procurement system). Its “Avis & Décisions” section publishes decisions of its dispute settlement committee, the Commission de Règlement des Différends (CRD), on bidder complaints, with the tender document references concerned. Its “Liste rouge” lists excluded companies.
• The national procurement control commission (Commission Nationale de Contrôle des Marchés Publics, CNCMP) publishes activity reports, such as its 2022 report.
• The procurement commissions (Commissions de Passation des Marchés Publics, CPMP) have a dedicated page on the national portal.

Tenders funded by the World Bank and the Islamic Development Bank

Some Mauritanian tenders belong to donor-funded projects, and the donors publish their own notices.

World Bank. The Opportunities page sorts notices into three tabs: “Specific Procurement Notices”, which invite bids or proposals before a deadline; “General Procurement Notices”, which give advance notice of tenders to come; and indicative items taken from procurement plans, which may change or not go ahead. The page offers email alerts and links to the Procurement Notices page to search all notices, current and archived. The Bank's text for borrowers under its Investment Project Financing is the Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers, whose seventh edition is dated September 2025. Check which edition the bidding document refers to. Our guide to World Bank tenders in Africa explains how to search the site.

Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). The “Mauritania | Project Procurement” page groups notices for IsDB projects in Mauritania: expressions of interest, general and specific procurement notices, each marked active or closed.

What Bidanga tracks for Mauritania

Bidanga collects public tenders from official portals and other public sources, with search, filters and alerts. Coverage varies widely from country to country. On 26 October 2026, the Mauritania page showed 3 open tenders and 528 tracked tenders in total (open and archived). All three open notices linked to projects.worldbank.org. On that date the page therefore reflected only part of what the national portal and donor sites publish, so check those sources directly as well.

Notices are stored in a common format based on the Open Contracting Data Standard, explained in our article on OCDS. On every notice, the link to the official source remains the reference for the deadline and the documents to submit.

Before you bid: what to check

• Open the notice at its source (national portal, contracting authority's site or donor page) and compare the reference, deadline and submission address with what any aggregator, Bidanga included, shows.
• Find the purchase in the procurement plan or annual purchasing plan that the contracting authority published on the national portal.
• Read the bidding document itself and the relevant articles of Law No. 2021-024 and Decree No. 2022-083, not a summary.
• Check the ARMP red list before teaming up with a partner or subcontractor.
• Browse the CRD decisions published by the ARMP to see which points have already been challenged at the contracting authority you are targeting.
• For a World Bank project, check which edition of the Procurement Regulations the bidding document refers to.

To receive new Mauritanian notices picked up by Bidanga, set an alert from the Mauritania page, and keep the national portal's email sign-up for notices Bidanga does not yet track.