Tender notice · eTender Publication Portal

Renewal for Microsoft agreement for 36 Months

AwardedStatus as the portal listed it on 11 October 2026Single source biddingOffice administrative, office support and other business support activities

The notice

As published; the portal's own fields

Tender number: HSRC/02/2026/27
Organ of state: Human Sciences Research Council
Advertised: 1 April 2026
Closing: 2 April 2026, 11:00 SAST
Briefing: none stated
Province: not stated
Submission: not electronic
OCDS id: ocds-e9a3178f-f96d-4b1f-8122-aec433d3b829
Portal record: 154559

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
MICROSOFT (S A)	R 1 274 894 883	Unverified: possible missing decimal separator. As published, this award value is the contract value followed by 2 extra digits, 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-154559 release ocds-9t57fa-154559-2026-04-01 (2026-04-01); award status "active"; description as published: "EME" · award date not published

Contracts

Attached to an award in the release; a contract value is its own figure, not the award's

ContractsAs published in the OCDS release
Reference	Supplier	Period	Contract value	Signed	Documents
HSRC/02/2026/27status “active”	MICROSOFT (S A)	1 April 2026 – 31 March 2029	R 12 748 948	28 August 2026	Microsoft.docx

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

Details

Source: National Treasury — eTender Publication Portal: tender opportunities (listing feeds) (external site)National Treasury — Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (eTender Publication Portal)
Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 12:20 SAST
Fingerprint: ec914b434a64808954c23fbfcb425d897e375f236319e1ac4c38cb4af98dcd42SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Public tender notices published under the Public Finance Management Act, the Municipal Finance Management Act and National Treasury Instruction Note 3 of 2016/17 (central publication on the eTender Publication Portal). The portal states no reuse licence; records are reproduced as published with attribution to National Treasury (terms read 2026-10-11).
Attribution: Tender notices: National Treasury, eTender Publication Portal (etenders.gov.za).

Source: National Treasury — eTenders OCDS API: awards and contracts of awarded tenders (external site)National Treasury — Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (eTenders OCDS API)
Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 14:20 SAST
Fingerprint: bdfe2cfe55afa790cac18e111d8a7bb9d88c482fc729cf8dd03dc170ab03e6c7SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0, as stated by the eTenders OCDS API in each response (opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/); publisher National Treasury. Records reproduced as published.
Attribution: Award and contract records: National Treasury, eTenders OCDS API (ocds-api.etenders.gov.za), PDDL 1.0.

The notice is the portal's listing record; awards and contracts are its OCDS release (Open Data Commons PDDL 1.0). Neither is edited: statuses, names and values are as the publisher printed them.