South Africa tender market report, September 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 2,491 notices
- Notices published
- 2,491
- +339% vs August 2026
- Still open
- 477
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 24 days
- middle half: 14–31 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In September 2026, FreeTender recorded 2,491 new procurement notices from buyers in South Africa (+339% on August 2026). The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 643 notices (26% of the total). The fastest growing was Healthcare & Pharma, up 700% to 88. Half of all notices gave bidders 24 days or less to respond. Friday was the busiest publishing day (28% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure643 notices+501%
- IT & Telecom177 notices+332%
- Transport & Logistics172 notices+197%
- Education & Training170 notices+286%
- Financial & Professional Services161 notices+258%
- Water & Environment153 notices+159%
- Manufacturing & Supply128 notices+482%
- Facility Management & Cleaning106 notices+524%
- Healthcare & Pharma88 notices+700%
- Energy & Power81 notices+406%
- Media, Printing & Advertising71 notices+318%
- Sports, Recreation & Events65 notices+364%
- Electrical equipment61 notices+663%
- Real Estate & Facilities60 notices+329%
- Agriculture & Food56 notices+833%
Change is against August 2026.
How buyers tendered
- Open tender2,399 notices
- Grant / funding call31 notices
- Request for proposal27 notices
- Request for quotation10 notices
- Corrigendum9 notices
- Contract award7 notices
- Expression of interest6 notices
- Consultancy2 notices
Publishing day
- Monday455 notices
- Tuesday471 notices
- Wednesday584 notices
- Thursday241 notices
- Friday696 notices
- Saturday31 notices
- Sunday13 notices
Most active buyers in South Africa
- ESKOM193 notices
- Transnet SOC Ltd63 notices
- Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa53 notices
- Water and Sanitation51 notices
- Airports Company of South Africa51 notices
- KZN Growth Fund Trust50 notices
- City of Tshwane48 notices
- Development Bank of Southern Africa38 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.