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eTender Publication Portal, each with the status the portal itself lists — advertised, closed, awarded, cancelled or withdrawn — and, where the portal’s open-contracting release states them, the supplier awarded, the award value and the contract.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

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Organs of state with the most notices

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

Suppliers with the most published awards

  1. BRAND GUARD18
  2. State Information Technology Agency16
  3. BIDVEST SERVICES15
  4. Chip Trust14
  5. LOLWETH'UTHANDO14
  6. SAB AND T CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS14
  7. KFC PIPES AND FITTINGS12
  8. SWORD GROUP12
  9. ESRI SOUTH AFRICA11
  10. Public Service and Administration - National School of Government10
  11. (ANATECH INSTRUMENTS)9
  12. ADAPT IT9
  13. Home Affairs - Government Printing Works9
  14. THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS-SOUTH AFRICA9
  15. AMANDLAGCF CONSTRUCTION8

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.