How to use the Monaqasat portal

Logging in

The portal's login page is at monaqasat.mof.gov.qa/eservices/Account/Login . If your company hasn't used the portal before, you need to register first — there's no way to log in without a company profile already on file. The site is primarily in Arabic, with an English toggle in the header.

Registering your company

To bid on a Qatar government tender, your company must be classified — the portal states this plainly: participation in government tenders requires a classified company. Classification is free and has two tracks: contractor, or supplier and service provider. The first step for either is creating a company profile ("إنشاء ملف تعريفي للشركة"), open to both Qatari and foreign companies.

The documents the portal lists for a company profile:

• Commercial Registration (CR)
• Trade license
• Establishment card
• Audited financials for the last fiscal year

The portal also asks for a professional-practice license where your activity requires one. After the Ministry approves your profile, you can apply for classification in the sector(s) that match your business, and the portal starts showing you tenders and auctions in your category. Beyond the first registration, the same "classification services" menu covers adding an activity, upgrading your classification, re-classifying, and editing your company profile — check the portal for which of these applies to you, since the exact requirements vary by sector and company size.

Finding and buying tender documents

Once you're classified, the portal lists tenders by status: available, future, technically opened, financially opened, closed, cancelled and awarded. To get a tender's documents, the portal's own guidance is: open your list of purchased tenders, search by tender number or name, go to the tender-documents tab, and download from there. Submitting a bid works the same way — open the tender from your purchased list and use the submit-bid option, then follow the steps it gives you. The Ministry publishes a step-by-step proposal-submission guide as a PDF (linked below) if you want the full walkthrough with screenshots.

If a tender you were invited to by email doesn't show up in the public list, check the "tenders you were invited to" section — invitations for limited tenders, direct agreements or a practice/negotiation process are often listed there rather than in the open list.

The ICV certificate

In-Country Value (ICV) measures how much of what you spend stays inside Qatar's economy — local wages, local suppliers, local investment. Qatar's tender evaluation weighs ICV alongside price: the portal's own FAQ confirms the percentage is taken into account at the financial-evaluation stage, using whatever your certificate shows as of the tender's closing date. That means a certificate that's lapsed by closing day gets you no ICV credit at all, even if it was valid when you submitted.

The Ministry announced in 2022 that ICV would eventually be mandatory for government tenders, and has since confirmed that requirement takes effect at the start of 2027 — before then, submitting a certificate is optional but still counted if you have one. Certification runs through Tawteen's ICV portal (icv.qa), not through Monaqasat itself: you register, submit your figures, and an accredited audit firm certifies the result. The portal's FAQ puts typical turnaround at 2–3 weeks and states the certificate is valid for a year, with the company bearing the certification cost. One certificate covers all Qatar government tenders — you don't need a separate one if you already hold an ICV certificate through Qatar Energy.

For the mechanics of how the ICV percentage changes who wins a tender, see check your ICV score before you bid and what the 2027 mandate changes .

Common mistakes

• Buying a tender under the wrong account. If your company doesn't show up when you try to purchase a tender, the portal's guidance is to check you're logged into the account your classification is actually registered under.
• Letting the ICV certificate lapse before closing day. The percentage used is whatever's on file when the tender closes, not when you submitted — renew before the deadline, not after.
• Missing a size restriction. Some tenders are limited to a specific company size band. If you can't purchase one, the portal directs you to the issuing entity, not technical support, to check your eligibility.
• Assuming a tender that isn't in your purchased list still went through. If a payment doesn't show the tender as purchased, contact the issuing entity before assuming it's resolved.