Public money

Tenders and procurement

Tender notices as organs of state publish them on National Treasury’s eTender Publication Portal, each with the status the portal itself lists — advertised, closed, awarded, cancelled or withdrawn — and, where the portal’s open-contracting release states them, the supplier awarded, the award value and the contract. A notice is one record however many feeds list it; a tender value, an award value and a contract value are three different figures and are never added together.

Tender notices: 168 166; advertised 2021–2026
Organs of state: 774; buyers named by the portal
Awards published: 4 630; 3 223 suppliers; 1 065 contracts
Awards with a contract: 996; 6 agree with it; 990 do not (885 read as the contract value with extra digits)
Status as at: 11 October 2026; the portal's listing on that date

Available — coverage varies by sourceAward detail exists for awarded notices published since 2025 whose open-contracting release the portal served; the rest are listed as awarded without the supplier. Notices whose organ of state the portal never names are not loaded. Coverage in detail.

3 notices from this organ of state (clear)

CD33/2026Advertised as published on 11 October 2026
CENTLEC (SOC) Ltd (hereafter referred to as CENTLEC), a Municipal Entity distributing electricity in Mangaung invites suitable bidders for the provision of critical electrical infrastructure security services within CENTLEC area of supply for a period of thirty-six (36) months.
CENTLEC SOC LTD · advertised 23 September 2026 · closes 27 October 2026 · Free State · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
CD45/2026Advertised as published on 11 October 2026
CENTLEC, a Municipal Entity distributing electricity in Mangaung Metro, invites prospective service providers to bid for public domestic connection within CENTLEC supply arear for a period of thirty-six (36) months.
CENTLEC SOC LTD · advertised 22 September 2026 · closes 23 October 2026 · Free State · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
RFP15/2026Advertised as published on 11 October 2026
CENTLEC (SOC) Ltd, hereafter referred to as CENTLEC, a Municipal Entity, distributing electricity in the area of Mangaung Metro Municipality, request proposals and bids, from registered electrical consulting engineers with their applicable professional teams, for the design and turnkey project management, specification, manufacturing, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and handing over of three new 33/11kV 10MVA transformers complete with tap change control and protection facilities, which includes amongst other all civil and electrical works, with the upgrading of the associated existing 11kV switching infrastructures, and all other related protection, quality assurance, communication, monitoring, SCADA, metering equipment, mounted in control panels, as well as alarm and security surveillance systems for the existing Botshabelo Substation T and W 33/11kV Distribution Centres for a period of thirty-six (36) months.
CENTLEC SOC LTD · advertised 14 September 2026 · closes 15 October 2026 · Free State · Request for Proposal

Organs of state with the most notices

ESKOM13 193
Agricultural Research Council7 237
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa4 895
Transnet SOC Ltd4 481
Public Works3 405
Johannesburg Water2 478
Justice & Constitutional Development2 072
Rand Water1 829
Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality1 827
City of Cape Town1 794
National Research Foundation1 763
Airports Company of South Africa1 642
South African National Roads Agency Soc Limited (SANRAL)1 601
Kwazulu Natal - Transport1 563
Water and Sanitation1 326

Suppliers with the most published awards

Ranked by the number of awards, not by value: award values are not summed anywhere on Mandate SA. Of the 996 awards that have a contract, 990 disagree with it — most often the award reads as the contract value with one to three extra digits, as if a decimal separator were lost at the source — and which figure is right is not established; 3 622 awards have no contract to check against. A supplier is one record per portal supplier id, never merged on a similar name.

How procurement records are kept

Each notice is one listing record of the portal, loaded through the audited pipeline and approved before publication, with the status the portal published on the date shown. Awards and contracts come from the portal’s open-contracting (OCDS) release of a tender, exactly as published: the supplier’s name as printed, the value, the contract reference and period. A refused release means the award was not retrieved, not that none exists. Mandate SA never infers an award, a winner or a payment, and never links a tender to a project on a name.