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eTender Publication Portal, each with the status the portal itself lists — advertised, closed, awarded, cancelled or withdrawn — and, where the portal’s open-contracting release states them, the supplier awarded, the award value and the contract.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

7 notices from this organ of state (clear)

DIRCO 07-2021/22Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
Appointment of a service provider to manufacture, transport, and deliver furniture to a location in Gauteng for the South African Diplomatic Mission in Havana, Cuba.
International Relations & Cooperation · advertised 9 November 2021 · closes 3 December 2021 · Gauteng · Request for Proposal
DIRCO 06/2021/2022Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
INVITATION TO BID FOR THE COLLECTION, DISPATCH, CONDUCTING CUSTOMS CLEARANCE AND DELIVERING OF DIPLOMATIC FREIGHT “AF” BAGS TO AND FROM DIRCO HEAD OFFICE AND SOUTH AFRICAN MISSIONS ABROAD INCLUDING DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION (DIRCO) PARLIAMENTARY OFFICE AND THE PROTOCOL OFFICES IN CAPE TOWN, DURBAN AND JOHANNESBURG FOR A PERIOD OF TWO (2) YEARS
International Relations & Cooperation · advertised 25 October 2021 · closes 16 November 2021 · Gauteng · Request for Proposal
DIRCO 04/2021/22Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
APPOINTMENT OF A SERVICE PROVIDER TO PROVIDE SELF-DRIVEN AND CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN VEHICLES FOR A PERIOD OF THREE (3) YEARS TO TRANSPORT VISITING FOREIGN HEADS OF STATES/GOVERNMENT, FOREIGN MINISTERS AND DEPUTY MINISTERS AS WELL AS OTHER EMINENT DIGNITARIES HOSTED BY THE PRESIDENT, DEPUTY PRESIDENT, MINISTER AND DEPUTY MINISTERS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION AND ALSO TO TRANSPORT OFFICIALS WORKING IN THE OFFICES OF THE MINISTER, DEPUTY MINISTERS, DIRECTOR-GENERAL AND THE BRANCH: STATE PROTOCOL AND CONSULAR SERVICES. THIS INCLUDES THE PROVISION OF THE SAME TRANSPORT SERVICES DURING THE PAN AFRICAN PARLIAMENT SESSIONS.
International Relations & Cooperation · advertised 14 October 2021 · closes 4 November 2021 · Gauteng · Request for Proposal
DIRCO 05-2021-22Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
REQUEST FOR INVITATION TO SERVICE PROVIDERS TO BID FOR THE MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY OF UNIFORM AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHING TO ELIGIBLE OFFICIALS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATIONS FOR A PERIOD OF THREE(3) YEARS
International Relations & Cooperation · advertised 8 October 2021 · closes 4 November 2021 · Gauteng · Request for Proposal
DIRCO 03-2021/22Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
INVITATION TO SERVICE PROVIDERS TO BID FOR THE PROCUREMENT, SUPPLY, DELIVERY, AND SUPPORT OF DESKTOP AND LAPTOP COMPUTERS FOR DIRCO OFFICES ABROAD
International Relations & Cooperation · advertised 1 September 2021 · closes 29 September 2021 · Request for Proposal
DIRCO 02-2021/22Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
APPOINTMENT OF A SERVICE PROVIDER(S) TO DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, MAINTAIN AND SUPPORT A HIGHLY SECURED CLOUD CENTRIC NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE THAT COVERS WIDE AREA NETWORK, LOCAL AREA NETWORK, ENTERPRISE WIRELESS, ENTERPRISE TELEPHONY INFRASTRUCTURES FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE (5) YEARS.
International Relations & Cooperation · advertised 24 June 2021 · closes 27 July 2021 · National · Request for Quotation
DIRCO 01-2021/22Closed as published on 11 October 2026
REQUEST FOR INVITATION TO SERVICE PROVIDERS TO BID FOR THE MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY OF UNIFORM AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHING TO ELIGIBLE OFFICIALS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION FOR A PERIOD OF THREE (3) YEARS
International Relations & Cooperation · advertised 12 May 2021 · closes 1 June 2021 · National · Request for Information

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.