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eTender Publication Portal, each with the status the portal itself lists — advertised, closed, awarded, cancelled or withdrawn — and, where the portal’s open-contracting release states them, the supplier awarded, the award value and the contract.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

MLRF194/22Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
THE APPOINTMENT OF THE PANEL OF SUPPLIERS TO SUPPLY TRAINING SERVICES FOR THE WORKING FOR FISHERIES PROGRAMME (WFFP) AND ITS EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME (EPWP) PROJECTS AS AND WHEN REQUIRED FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY-SIX (36) MONTHS.
Marine Living Resources Fund · advertised 15 December 2022 · closes 31 January 2023 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
MLRF195/22Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
THE APPOINTMENT OF THE PANEL OF SUPPLIERS TO SUPPLY AND DELIVER PROTECTIVE CLOTHING FOR THE WORKING FOR FISHERIES PROGRAMME (WFFP) AND ITS EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME (EPWP) PROJECTS AS AND WHEN REQUIRED FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY-SIX (36) MONTHS.
Marine Living Resources Fund · advertised 15 December 2022 · closes 31 January 2023 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
MLRF196/22Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
THE APPOINTMENT OF THE PANEL OF SUPPLIERS TO SUPPLY DELIVER AND ASSEMBLE (WHERE APPLICABLE) MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE WORKING FOR FISHERIES PROGRAMME (WFFP) AND ITS EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME (EPWP) PROJECTS AS AND WHEN REQUIRED FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY-SIX (36) MONTHS.
Marine Living Resources Fund · advertised 15 December 2022 · closes 31 January 2023 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
MLRF191/22Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
REQUEST TO OUTSOURCE A SERVICE PROVIDER TO CONDUCT AN ASSESSMENT, COLLECTION OF PRODUCTION DATA AND ANALYSIS OF FRESHWATER FARMS WITHIN THE NINE (9) PROVINCES FOR A PERIOD OF TWELVE (12) MONTHS
Marine Living Resources Fund · advertised 1 December 2022 · closes 17 January 2023 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
MLRF190/22Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
TO APPOINT A PANEL OF SERVICE PROVIDERS (SPs) TO PROVIDE THE MARINE LIVING RESOURCES FUND (MLRF) WITH CONTRACT WORKERS FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY-SIX (36) MONTHS FOR AS AND WHEN REQUIRED BASIS.
Marine Living Resources Fund · advertised 24 October 2022 · closes 14 November 2022 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
RFQ 000533Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
Appointment of a service provider to provide the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (Marine Living Resources Fund (MLRF) with personnel to undertake a review of the outcomes of an independent stock assessment conducted by Rhodes University and conduct an updated Fishery Independent Abalone Survey (FIAS) in concession area EC1 the Eastern Cape, for a period of ten (10) Months for sustainable Aquaculture Management Directorate.
Marine Living Resources Fund · advertised 12 October 2022 · closes 13 October 2022 · Request for Proposal
RFQ000524Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
Request to Appoint a Service Provider (SP) to supply one (1) person that will render specialized permitting services for aquaculture authorization at Foretrust Building, Cape Town for a period of 24 months for the Directorate Sustainable Aquaculture Management.
Marine Living Resources Fund · advertised 13 July 2022 · closes 9 August 2022 · Request for Quotation

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.