Public tenders in South Africa, one live feed.
Every South Africa public tender in one live feed.Monitored, scored against your profile, deadlines tracked.
May 4 – November 4, 2026
Tenders · 185 days
914 new every week
Average published value · Awarded
median R327K
Buying organisations
municipalities, utilities, state orgs
Open right now
4024/month
Public tenders in South Africa, by category
Every sector of the South Africa public market, with live counts.
Inside the South Africa market
Reporting period: May 4 to November 4, 2026. 1,906 notices in this report were open for bids at the snapshot date.
1,625 notices disclose awarded values in ZAR: average ZAR 10,313,214, median ZAR 326,750. 6 notices disclose values without a specified basis in ZAR: average ZAR 159,671,081, median ZAR 151,560,197.
Average and median values help compare contract sizes. Price the specific scope, quantities and contract terms rather than treating an aggregate as a budget; an undisclosed value does not mean zero.
The most active buying organisations in this selection are ESKOM (1,428 notices); Johannesburg Water (595 notices); Transnet SOC (531 notices).
Top buyers to watch · Tenders · 185 days
| Organisation | Tenders | Announced value |
|---|---|---|
| ESKOM | 1428 | R5.0B |
| Johannesburg Water | 595 | R2.5M |
| Transnet SOC | 531 | R119.3M |
| Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa | 504 | R45.5M |
| Eskom | 491 | — |
| Airports Company of South Africa | 379 | R1.5M |
What Otnox does
Not another tender list. A strategy engine.
Every public tender across 90 markets, scored, mapped and explained: so you spend effort on the bids you can actually win.
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New tenders appear within minutes of publication. 80+ portals checked continuously, 24/7.
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Spanish tender in, English verdict out. AI output and the whole interface in multiple languages.
Buyer Intelligence
Know how each public buyer behaves before you bid: re-tender cycles, scoring habits, repeat winners and verified contacts.
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Move tenders through stages like a CRM: watching, bidding, submitted, won. Built for a sales director, not an archive.
Universal Category Layer
47,000+ procurement codes across CPV, NAICS, UNSPSC and more, mapped into one taxonomy, so a search in one market works in all 90.
What buyers are asking for this week
A snapshot of contracts published recently across South Africa. Open one for the full notice, or browse the sector it belongs to.
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Frequently asked questions
Otnox is an AI-powered procurement intelligence platform. We aggregate public tenders from 90 markets on six continents into one dashboard, score every notice against your business profile, profile the buyers behind them, and translate everything into your working language. Built for sales teams, consultants and bid managers who sell to government.
90 markets and counting: most of the EU (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Poland, Germany, France, Spain and more), the UK, the US and Canada, Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay), Africa (South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda) and Asia-Pacific (Australia, India, Indonesia, Taiwan). Every feed comes from the country's official procurement portal, and new markets are added monthly.
Minutes after publication on the official portal. We track over a million tenders with thousands of new notices arriving daily, and alert you by Telegram, Slack or email the moment something matches your profile.
You describe your business once: what you sell, where you deliver, your typical deal size. The AI scores every incoming tender from 0 to 100 against that profile, so you read the handful that matter instead of scrolling keyword noise. Matching follows the buyer as an organization too, so renamed or re-spelled entities never slip past your monitors.
A behavioral profile of every public buyer: procurement history, how often they re-tender, average contract sizes by category, repeat winners and verified contacts. You know how a buyer behaves before you spend a week on the bid.
No. One click translates any tender, and the interface itself speaks multiple languages. A Finnish tender reads like it was published in English, Italian, Romanian, Ukrainian or Dutch, and the translation is saved permanently.
Every market uses its own taxonomy: CPV in Europe, NAICS in North America, UNSPSC and national systems elsewhere. Otnox maps more than 47,000 codes into one universal category layer, so a single search covers all 90 markets at once.
Directly from each country's official government procurement portal. No scraped aggregators, no stale mirrors. You always see the original notice with a link back to the source.
Yes. A free account gives you search, tender details and buyer summaries. Winner identities, winning prices and the full intelligence require a pass.
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