13 open notices
Baseline and endline studies, impact evaluations, third-party monitoring, household surveys, feasibility and market studies, and applied policy research for development programmes.
These are the organisations with the most research, studies & evaluation 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.
Since 7 Aug 2026, FreeTender has recorded 24 research, studies & evaluation notices in South Africa, 11 of them open today. The median bid window is 24 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears.
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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 research, studies & evaluation 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.
Research and evaluation assignments are commissioned by UN agencies, development banks, bilateral donors and international NGOs, and are almost always awarded on quality-and-cost rather than price alone — commonly 70:30 or 80:20 in favour of the technical proposal. The decisive elements are the proposed methodology, the named team and the evaluator's independence from the programme being assessed. Expect to be asked for a sampling frame, an analysis plan, ethics and safeguarding arrangements for research with human subjects, and prior assignments of comparable scope. Terms of reference frequently name a specific framework — the OECD-DAC criteria for evaluations, or a donor's own results framework — and a proposal that ignores it loses marks that were freely available. Data ownership and publication rights normally sit with the commissioning agency; check whether you may cite the work later.
Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.
Mining Qualifications Authority
Gert Sibande District Municipality
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
City of Tshwane
South African Tourism
Western Cape - Local Government
Science & Technology
Moses Kotane Local Municipality
Western Cape - Department of Mobility
Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited
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