Evidence-backed Opportunities

RDA's Executive Engineer's office at Thalgaswala is inviting bids to supply, and separately to supply and lay, ABC metal for the rural roads programme in the Hiniduma division of Galle District. Bids close on 11 November 2026.

CEB's Southern Province 1 office in Galle is taking e-quotations on PROMISe for 200 reinforced-concrete 6 m poles, 25,000 m of aerial bundled conductor and 30 line-change cross-arm sets. The first two close on 4 November 2026, the cross-arms on 11 November.

RDA's Chief Engineer's office in Matara is inviting bids to supply grade 30 ready-mix concrete for rural road and special projects in the Matara and Deniyaya engineering divisions. Bids close on 11 November 2026.

RDA's Executive Engineer's office in Matara is inviting bids to supply ABC base-course material, a motor grader, a 10-tonne vibrating roller and skilled and unskilled labour for road maintenance, rural roads and weak-bridge work in the Matara division. Bids close on 10 November 2026.

RDA's Southern Provincial Director is inviting bids for three concrete rural-road improvements in Galle District: Olagoda Road (Niyagama), a Kuruduwaththa access road (Balapitiya) and the Rajipura Galathota ring road (Rathgama). Bids close on 10 November 2026.

RDA's Chief Engineer's office in Galle is inviting bids to supply ABC metal, and to supply and lay it, for the rural roads programme in the Galle and Hiniduma divisions. Bids close on 9 November 2026.

RDA's Chief Engineer's office in Galle is inviting bids to supply grade 30 ready-mix concrete, and to supply and lay it, for the rural roads programme in the Galle and Hiniduma divisions. Bids close on 9 November 2026.

RDA's Chief Engineer's office in Matara is inviting bids to lay and compact asphalt concrete with a paver, including tack coat, on road rehabilitation, maintenance and rural-road work in the Matara division. Bids close on 6 November 2026.

The National Water Supply and Drainage Board is inviting bids to provide unskilled workmen for operation and maintenance field works in its Galle region. Bids close on 3 November 2026.

The National Water Supply and Drainage Board is inviting bids to provide unskilled workmen for operation and maintenance field works in its Matara region. Bids close on 3 November 2026.

Lanka Electricity Company is inviting bids for a landscape development project at its Galle branch office premises on Richmond Hill Road. Bids close on 2 November 2026.

The BOI lists a 0.0780 ha Urban Development Authority plot facing the Colombo–Galle road opposite the beach at Hikkaduwa, to be offered for hospitality and leisure development on a 30 or 50 year lease.

The BOI lists 31 acres at Walahanduwa Watta, Akmeemana, as the proposed Galle Techno Park, an IT zone with offices, restaurants and a clubhouse planned by the Urban Development Authority for software, research and outsourcing firms.

SLTDA's public tourism land bank lists four sites in Galle district for tourism investment: Dedduwa Lake Resort (694 ha) and three small plots at Ambalangoda, Baddegama and Unawatuna.

SLTDA's public tourism land bank lists six sites in Matara district for tourism investment, four of them around Mirissa and Weligama and the largest, 2.7 ha, in Matara town.

The BOI lists vacant lots inside the Koggala Export Processing Zone: about 15.4 acres of developed land in six lots and about 8.7 acres of undeveloped land in three lots, for export-oriented industry.

The BOI state-owned land workbook lists 139 land records in Matara district, about 276 hectares where an extent is given, mostly forest or scrub and vacant land, across 16 DS divisions.

The BOI state-owned land workbook lists 94 land records in Galle district across about 20 DS divisions, most of them vacant, with GN division, extent and present land use for each.

Seven state-owned parcels at the Bentota National Holiday Resort, about 34 acres in total, listed by the BOI as land for investment. The BOI workbook notes a call for investment advertised on 13 July 2025.

The 694-hectare (about 1,700-acre) Dedduwa Lake Resort site in Bentota DS division is listed on SLTDA's public land bank. SLTDA first called expressions of interest for a theme resort there on a 30-year lease in 2023; that call closed on 11 July 2023.

The Cabinet approved a Rs. 2,946 million project to stop repeated flooding at Wewurukannala near Dickwella, to be carried out from 2027 to 2030 on plans drawn up by the Sri Lanka Land Development Corporation.

The Cabinet approved a centralised zero-waste biomass cinnamon processing centre at the University of Ruhuna's agriculture faculty in Mapalana, run with the Industrial Technology Institute, to serve small cinnamon growers in Matara and Galle.

The Cabinet approved implementing 217 prioritised urban projects in ten cities, Matara among them, under the 10 Cities Development Programme funded through the 2026 Budget.

The Cabinet approved moving the High Court and Magistrate's Court out of Galle Fort to the new Beligaha complex and handing the old court buildings to the Urban Development Authority for a tourism promotion project under a public-private partnership.

The Cabinet approved leasing the Mawarala watte land and tea factory, 40.48 hectares in Matara district belonging to the Tea Shakthi Fund, to suitable investors through the prescribed procurement procedure.

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority plans to reclaim about 45 hectares along Dewata Beach in the Bay of Galle for tourism and real-estate uses beside a new 150 m cruise berth and terminal. The supplementary environmental impact assessment (October 2024) is on public notice with Coast Conservation.

A National Water Supply and Drainage Board scheme drawing on the Nilwala river to serve 12 divisional secretariat areas in Matara and part of Hambantota. Its design-and-build contract was ended by mutual agreement in January 2023 at 93.4% progress, so the remaining works are still to be completed.

Contract for the rehabilitation and improvement of 13.3 km of the Colombo-Galle-Hambantota-Wellawaya road (A002) between Kamburugamuwa and Devinuwara, awarded by the Cabinet after national competitive bidding.

Contract for the rehabilitation and improvement of about 12.33 km of the A002 between Talalla and Kudawella, awarded by the Cabinet after national competitive bidding. The section starts in Matara district and ends in Hambantota district.

SLTDA called national competitive bids to build a chain-link fence from the railway station to the railway crossing and around the sewerage treatment plant at the Bentota National Holiday Resort. Estimated at LKR 12.9 million; bids closed on 29 September 2026.

SLTDA sought a service provider to operate, maintain and repair the sewerage treatment plant at the Bentota National Holiday Resort for 2026/2027. Bids closed on 30 March 2026.

The Urban Development Authority called investor proposals to restore and redevelop the Old Post Office building inside Galle Fort on a 50-year lease, at a base value of Rs. 1,035 million. Bids closed on 4 April 2024.