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CONTRACT FOR THE OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE OCEANARIUM AND MARINE LIFE FACILITY AT DURBAN MARINE THEME PARK T/A USHAKA MARINE WORLD

AwardedStatus as the portal listed it on 11 October 2026Single source biddingOther service activities

The notice

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Tender number: UMW-322
Organ of state: Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality
Advertised: 15 July 2025
Closing: 16 July 2025, 11:00 SAST
Briefing: none stated
Province: not stated
Submission: not electronic
OCDS id: ocds-f37e87ab-fec2-43e1-8050-b23044bd8bdd
Portal record: 137039

Awards

From the portal's open-contracting release of this tender, as published

AwardsSupplier as printed; value as published
Supplier, as published	Award value	Value check	Detail as published
SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (RF)	R 2 592 000 000	Unverified: possible missing decimal separator. As published, this award value is the contract value followed by one extra digit, as if a decimal separator were lost at the source. Which figure is right is not established; both are shown as published and neither is used in any total.	OCDS ocds-9t57fa-137039 release ocds-9t57fa-137039-2025-07-15 (2025-07-15); award status "active"; description as published: "EME" · award date not published

Contracts

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ContractsAs published in the OCDS release
Reference	Supplier	Period	Contract value	Signed	Documents
UMW-322status “active”	SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (RF)	— – —	R 259 200 000	16 October 2025	6._UMW_322[1].zip

Tender record: National Treasury — Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (eTender Publication Portal) · 2 official files · retrieved 11 October 2026

Details

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Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 12:20 SAST
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Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 14:20 SAST
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