Spatial data, the schema it lands in, and who can use it afterwards
Geospatial procurement is about data and the systems that serve it rather than about maps. The specification should state the feature classes to be captured, the attribute schema each must conform to, the coordinate reference system, the capture scale or accuracy, and the metadata standard the delivery must carry. Those choices determine whether the result can be joined to data the buyer already holds, and the commonest failure in this category is a technically excellent dataset that will not align with anything.
Where the data comes from is a distinct question from how it is structured. Digitising from existing records, field survey, remote sensing, and licensing an existing commercial or national dataset are all routes with different costs and different rights attached, and licensed base data frequently carries derived-data restrictions that limit what the buyer may publish afterwards. Public bodies increasingly require outputs they can release openly, which makes the licensing of any underlying base data a procurement decision rather than a technical one.
Systems requirements follow standards that exist for interoperability. Buyers specify service interfaces for viewing, querying and downloading spatial data, catalogue entries so the data can be discovered, and formats that are open and documented. Maintenance is the part most often omitted: spatial data decays as the world changes, so update cycles, change detection, version control and the retention of historical states need to be contracted, and address and property datasets in particular need a defined authoritative source rather than a one-off capture.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys gis & mapping in India?
GlobalGov holds 34 gis & mapping records from 11 distinct buying organisations in India. The most frequent publishers are Government Of India (WB Project) (13 records); World Bank -- Integrated Project For Source Sustainability And Climate Resilient Rain-fed Agriculture In Himachal (7 records); World Bank -- West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project - Phase II (5 records); World Bank -- West Bengal Accelerated Development Of Minor Irrigation Project - Phase II (2 records); Bihar Surface Water (1 record); Dpmu Purulia (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 85% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Government Of India (WB Project) | 13 | 38% |
| World Bank -- Integrated Project For Source Sustainability And Climate Resilient Rain-fed Agriculture In Himachal | 7 | 21% |
| World Bank -- West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project - Phase II | 5 | 15% |
| World Bank -- West Bengal Accelerated Development Of Minor Irrigation Project - Phase II | 2 | 5.9% |
| Bihar Surface Water | 1 | 2.9% |
| Dpmu Purulia | 1 | 2.9% |
How long do bidders get to respond to gis & mapping tenders in India?
Across the 18 India gis & mapping notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 15 days. A quarter of them allowed 7 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. 8 of them (44%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.
How often are gis & mapping tenders published in India?
India published 1 notice in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 19, spread across 24 separate months of activity since 28 March 2011. September is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 12 November 2025, 323 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the India gis & mapping records on this page come from?
These 34 records are collected from 2 official sources: GeM (18), the World Bank (16). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent GIS & Mapping tenders in India
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical gis & mapping notice in India is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
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