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eTender Publication Portal, each with the status the portal itself lists — advertised, closed, awarded, cancelled or withdrawn — and, where the portal’s open-contracting release states them, the supplier awarded, the award value and the contract.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.

1 notice from this organ of state (clear)

EDM/17/2026-27Advertised as published on 11 October 2026
Tenders are hereby invited from capable and experienced service providers for the SUPPLY, DELIVERY, INSTALLATION, CONFIGURATION AND SUPPORT FOR ENTERPRISE COMPUTER SERVERS 1. Only tenderers who have provided the following mandatory information and documents to be used to evaluate the bidder's responsiveness will be considered for further evaluation on functionality: 1.1 Only service providers who are registered on the Central Supplier Database (CSD) will be considered and the copy of the full CSD report not older than three months should be submitted. 1.2 Form of offer must be firm, VAT and other tax-inclusive and valid at least ninety (90) days from the closing date. 1.3 Service providers are required to fully complete the attached MBD forms and be submitted together with their written tenders. 1.4 No tender shall be considered for the persons who are in the service of the state, 1.5 Valid SARS PIN certificate must be attached. 1.6 Attached original Certified copy of company registration documents issued by Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC). 1.7 Attached original Certified copies of Identity Documents (ID) of all company directors. 1.8 Attach verifiable Municipal Account/s not older than three months for both the tenderer and entity owner/s or director/s. In areas where the municipalities are not issuing municipal accounts, attach valid lease agreements or confirmation of residence or address for both the tenderer and entity owner/s or director/s issued by a relevant authority not older than three months. 1.9 Joint Venture or Consortium Agreement if applicable. 1.10 All tender documents must be duly signed and submitted on the PDF document that has been issued and certified documents must not be older than three months. 1.11 Tenderers are advised not to commit any fraudulent activities, including forgery of documents. All abuses of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems including but not limited to forgery of returnable documents, may be repo
Ehlanzeni District Municipality · advertised 29 September 2026 · closes 16 October 2026 · Mpumalanga · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

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.