South African public and private tenders
Know before you bid.
Over two thousand tenders are advertised at any one time. A handful are yours. Bekom shows you which, what you would be judged on, and what in your own paperwork is about to disqualify you, while there is still time to fix it.
Built on the official tender board. Plans from R500 a month, month to month.
What a week of reading gets you
Most of the South African tender board was never yours.
Not because you could not do the work. Because of category, scale, grading, documents, or a briefing in another province tomorrow morning. Finding tenders was never the hard part.
Counted off the official portal on 30 September 2026. The total moves a hundred either way week to week. The shape does not.
Why good bidders lose
A bid rarely fails on the work.
It fails on a date nobody surfaced, a document that quietly expired, or a tender that was never meant for you in the first place.
The briefing is the real deadline
A compulsory briefing is pass or fail, and it falls weeks before the closing date. Sort by closing date, the way every alert service does, and a tender that briefs tomorrow looks like it has a month left.
Your own paperwork ends most bids
A tax clearance that lapses four days before closing. An affidavit that went stale. A form unsigned on one page. None of it announces itself, and none of it is about whether you could have done the work.
Keywords cannot tell two businesses apart
Hundreds of tenders say "delivery". Almost all of them mean supply and delivery of goods, not a delivery service. A keyword match sends you every one, and the difference is the whole business.
The convincing order that was never real
Fraud against small suppliers works by sending an order for goods you then buy with your own money. If it is not on the official board, it is not a tender. Bekom only ever shows you what is.
How it works
Set it up once. Then read three things instead of two thousand.
- 01
Tell us what your business is
Your registration, your compliance documents, what you actually deliver and where. Once. Everything after this reads from it.
- 02
We read the board so you do not
Every tender on the official portal, plus private tenders listed directly by buyers on Bekom, measured against what you hold.
- 03
You get the few, in the order they bind
Briefings before closing dates. What you would be judged on. What is missing, and how long you have to fix it.
What you get
Fewer tenders, and a reason for each one.
Only what fits
The tenders you can deliver, separated from the ones you would need a partner for, and the ones you should leave alone.
Where you stand before you start
What the buyer will be scoring, and how your company measures against it, before the week is spent.
The deadline that actually binds
Compulsory briefings first, with the venue, the joining link and a code you can scan to get there.
Your pack, checked against the date
Every document you need, tested against that tender’s closing date rather than the day you last downloaded it.
Partners where you fall short
When a tender needs a grading or a document you do not hold, see exactly what is missing, so you can go and find the partner who has it.
Public and private, one board
Government tenders from the official portal, and private tenders published directly by buyers here as that side fills.
Pricing
Priced per company, not per keyword.
Charging by keyword is what makes an alert service want to show you more. We would rather show you less.
Watch
R500per month
The board, filtered to what you do.
- Tenders in your categories
- Closing dates and compulsory briefings
- Official portal and private tenders
- One user
Watch tells you what is on the board in your categories. It does not tell you whether you qualify for any of it, check your documents against a closing date, or tell you what not to bid. That starts at Qualify.
Start with WatchQualify
RecommendedR1 900per month
The few that fit, and what would stop you.
- Everything in Watch
- Only what your company fits
- Where you stand before you bid
- Briefing-first deadlines with joining codes
- Document checks against each closing date
- Private tenders from buyers on Bekom, as they are published
- Three users
Bid
R4 500per month
For a team that bids every week.
- Everything in Qualify
- Bid pack assembled from your documents
- Partner matching for what you do not hold
- Submission trail and reminders
- Ten users
All prices exclude VAT. Month to month, cancel any time, no notice period.
For buyers and procurement teams
Publish a tender. Reach suppliers who actually qualify.
List a private tender, an RFQ or an expression of interest on Bekom and it reaches the suppliers who can meet it, with their compliance already in order. No inbox full of bids that were never eligible.
List in minutes
Scope, documents, closing date, briefing. Published to suppliers who match.
Pre-qualified reach
Your notice goes to suppliers whose registration and documents already meet what you asked for.
Responses in one place
Submissions, questions and addenda on one record, with a full trail of who saw what and when.
A defensible process
Every notice, response and decision timestamped, so the process stands up to being asked about.
Open tenders
See what is open right now.
Every tender on the national board, free to browse: who is buying, where, the briefing and the closing date. Signing up tells you which ones fit your business.
Questions
Asked and answered.
Find out what you qualify for.
A few minutes to set up, and from R500 a month. If the answer is that nothing on the board fits you right now, that is worth knowing too.