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Procurement of Commvault backup and replication software for a period of twelve months

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

The notice

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Tender number: REQ 4486
Organ of state: South African Weather Service
Advertised: 1 June 2026
Closing: 5 June 2026, 11:00 SAST
Briefing: none stated
Province: not stated
Submission: not electronic
OCDS id: ocds-ec747a4e-f032-4608-ba1b-fbce31162ce4
Portal record: 164942

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
DATA SCIENCES CORPORATION	R 283 652 680	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-164942 release ocds-9t57fa-164942-2026-06-01 (2026-06-01); award status "active"; description as published: "GEN" · 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
PO00003381status “active”	DATA SCIENCES CORPORATION	9 June 2026 – 10 June 2027	R 2 836 526	14 August 2026	PO3381 Data Science Corporation SIGNED.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
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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.
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