Tender notice · eTender Publication Portal

Digital Forensic Investigative Services in the Estina matter

AwardedStatus as the portal listed it on 11 October 2026Single source biddingServices: Professional

The notice

As published; the portal's own fields

Tender number: D17271
Organ of state: National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)
Advertised: 17 March 2026
Closing: 25 March 2026, 11:00 SAST
Briefing: not stated
Province: not stated
Submission: not electronic
OCDS id: ocds-f2f0af37-6623-445c-87d1-1399e8e57d21
Portal record: 156140

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
QUINTESSENCE DIGITAL FORENSICS	R 3 496 000	Unverified: no contract to check against. No contract value is published for this award, so it cannot be checked; the portal's award values are often inconsistent with their contracts. Not used in any total.	OCDS ocds-9t57fa-156140 release ocds-9t57fa-156140-2026-03-17 (2026-03-17); 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
D17271status “active”	QUINTESSENCE DIGITAL FORENSICS	5 June 2026 – 10 July 2026	R 0	5 June 2026	Signed General Conditions of Contract.pdf

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.