South Africa tender market report, August 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 568 notices
- Notices published
- 568
- Still open
- 53
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 33 days
- middle half: 26–43 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In August 2026, FreeTender recorded 568 new procurement notices from buyers in South Africa. The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 107 notices (19% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 33 days or less to respond. Friday was the busiest publishing day (41% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure107 notices
- Water & Environment59 notices
- Transport & Logistics58 notices
- Financial & Professional Services45 notices
- Education & Training44 notices
- IT & Telecom41 notices
- Manufacturing & Supply22 notices
- Facility Management & Cleaning17 notices
- Media, Printing & Advertising17 notices
- Energy & Power16 notices
- Sports, Recreation & Events14 notices
- Real Estate & Facilities14 notices
- Healthcare & Pharma11 notices
- Electrical equipment8 notices
- Agriculture & Food6 notices
How buyers tendered
- Open tender497 notices
- Corrigendum26 notices
- Request for proposal22 notices
- Request for quotation11 notices
- Grant / funding call8 notices
- Expression of interest2 notices
- Consultancy1 notices
- Contract award1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday97 notices
- Tuesday82 notices
- Wednesday66 notices
- Thursday80 notices
- Friday233 notices
- Saturday4 notices
- Sunday6 notices
Most active buyers in South Africa
- ESKOM47 notices
- Development Bank of Southern Africa44 notices
- Transnet SOC Ltd27 notices
- City of Cape Town14 notices
- THE MVULA TRUST12 notices
- Airports Company of South Africa10 notices
Other months
Method: counts are notices first published in the month, by the buyer's country, across all sources FreeTender reads. Bid window means days from publication to the deadline. Coverage grows as we add sources, so part of any rise can be new coverage rather than new demand. You may quote these figures with a link to this page. The underlying rows are in our open dataset.