2 open notices
Climate adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction, early-warning systems, climate finance and policy, just-transition and decarbonisation work.
These are the organisations with the most climate, resilience & disaster risk notices open in South Africa right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.
South African public procurement is decentralised across national and provincial departments, municipalities and state-owned entities, with notices published on the National Treasury eTender portal and on individual entities' own sites. Municipal and utility procurement is a substantial share of the market.
Across the climate, resilience & disaster risk notices we currently hold for South Africa, the most common form is the open tender or invitation to bid. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.
Suppliers must be registered on the Central Supplier Database, and tax compliance status is verified at award. Evaluation applies preference points under the preferential procurement framework alongside price, so B-BBEE status directly affects scoring. Mandatory returnable documents are strictly applied and omissions are a common cause of disqualification.
Climate and resilience procurement spans technical studies (vulnerability assessments, greenhouse-gas inventories, NDC support), programme delivery (community-based adaptation, early-warning systems, disaster preparedness) and increasingly the design of climate finance instruments. Funding often comes through dedicated vehicles — the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility, adaptation funds — whose own rules on eligibility, co-financing and reporting apply on top of the procuring agency's. Assignments regularly require a mix of climate science, economics and local delivery capability, so consortium bidding is common. Where a methodology is prescribed (IPCC guidelines, a national adaptation planning framework), follow it explicitly in the technical proposal rather than substituting your own.
Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.
Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality
South African Weather Service
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