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eTender Publication Portal, each with the status the portal itself lists — advertised, closed, awarded, cancelled or withdrawn — and, where the portal’s open-contracting release states them, the supplier awarded, the award value and the contract.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

2 notices from this organ of state (clear)

RFPT 09-2021/22Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
The Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) hereby invites reputable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) service provider/s who have extensive experience in providing comprehensive ICT professional support services for a period of twelve (12) months.
Small Enterprise Development Agency · advertised 15 December 2021 · closes 24 January 2022 · Gauteng · Request for Proposal
RFQ NO-136/2021Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
Request for Quotation (RFQ) - The purpose of this project is to procure the services of a Service provider to provide training course on Design Thinking for SMMEs. Design Thinking was identified as one of the courses required by SMMEs in order to implement design thinking in their businesses. The Service Provider should have proven experience, knowledge, capacity and expertise to deliver two sessions for the Design Thinking Course to fifty (50) SMMEs. Each session to be conducted online with 25 SMMEs per session. The purpose of this programme is to develop and capacitate SMMEs with relevant knowledge and skills in Design Thinking so that they are able to apply design thinking techniques into the businesses.
Small Enterprise Development Agency · advertised 17 September 2021 · closes 23 September 2021 · 1066 Burnett Street, The Fields Office Block A - Hatfield - Pretoria - 0833; province as published: National · 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.