Choose the right Tender Bulletin plan

Free gives you full access to Tender Bulletin’s public search and browse experience: government tenders, state entity pages, tender references, closing dates, and document downloads where we have files on hand. No login required.

The R199/month Tender Bulletin Subscription unlocks your personal account on Tender Bulletin. You get paginated search inside your dashboard, the ability to save tenders, follow state entities for alerts, choose daily or weekly email digests, manage saved searches, and access premium tools including RFQs and corporate tender features.

In short: search and discover for free on the website; subscribe when you want Tender Bulletin to work for you proactively — alerts, saved opportunities, and a full account workspace.

The Tender Bulletin Subscription is one plan at R199 per month. It includes everything in the free tier, plus:

• Full authenticated tender search with pagination in your account
• Save tenders to review, compare, and track later
• Follow state entities with entity alerts
• Daily or weekly email digest — you choose, and you can change it anytime
• Business profile and account dashboard
• Saved searches and alert preferences
• Download tender documents from your account
• RFQs and corporate tender tools on Tender Bulletin premium

There is no separate daily or weekly plan — both digest frequencies are included in the single subscription. Create your Tender Bulletin account to get started.

No. You can search government tenders on Tender Bulletin immediately without registering. The public website is designed so anyone can find current open tender bulletins, filter by province or category, and explore issuing bodies on our state entity pages.

An account is only required for subscriber features: saving tenders, setting up entity alerts, receiving email digests, and managing your subscription. If you only need to look up opportunities occasionally, the free search is enough.

Entity alerts let subscribers follow specific government and state-owned issuers on Tender Bulletin. When new tender bulletins are published for an entity you follow, those tenders are included in your email digest.

For example, you might follow Eskom, SANRAL, the City of Johannesburg, or a national department — depending on where your business bids. You can follow multiple entities at once and manage them from your alerts dashboard.

Set up alerts from any state entity page on Tender Bulletin, or from your account after you register. Alerts are included in the R199/month subscription — there is no per-entity fee.

That depends on how closely you track tenders. A daily digest suits businesses that bid frequently and want to see new opportunities as soon as they appear on Tender Bulletin. A weekly digest suits teams who prefer a single roundup to review at the start or end of the week.

Both options are included in your subscription at no extra cost. You can switch between daily and weekly at any time from your Tender Bulletin account — for example if your workload changes or you are preparing for a busy tender season.

Saved tenders let you bookmark opportunities inside your Tender Bulletin account. Instead of losing track of a reference number or closing date, you can save tenders as you review them and return later from your dashboard — useful when comparing bids, sharing with colleagues, or building a pipeline of work to pursue.

Saved searches (where available in your account) help you revisit the filters and keywords you use most often, so you do not have to rebuild the same search every time you log in. Saved tenders and saved searches are subscriber features included in the R199/month plan.

Yes. Where Tender Bulletin has tender documents on file, you can download them directly from search results and state entity pages on the public website — free users included.

Subscribers can also download documents while searching and saving tenders inside their account, which makes it easier to work through specifications, bid forms, and supporting files without repeating the same steps each visit.

Not every tender will have documents attached; availability depends on what was published by the issuing entity and what Tender Bulletin has aggregated. We add and refresh documents as new bulletins are ingested.

Tender Bulletin aggregates current government open tender bulletins from across South Africa — national departments, provincial administrations, municipalities, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Our state entity pages group tenders by issuing body so you can see everything open from Eskom, SANRAL, a metro, or a department in one place.

You can also browse tenders by province and category on the free website. Coverage grows as we ingest new sources; subscriber alerts help you catch new bulletins for the entities you care about without checking each site manually.

RFQs and private-sector opportunities are available on Tender Bulletin premium for subscribers — government search remains free on the public site.

Beyond government open tender bulletins, Tender Bulletin premium includes RFQs (requests for quotation) and private-sector tender opportunities for subscribers. These are aimed at businesses that want a broader view of procurement — not only national and municipal government, but also corporate and other non-government opportunities where we publish them.

Government tender search on the public website stays free. RFQs and private-sector tools are part of the R199/month subscription alongside alerts, saved tenders, and your account dashboard.

The R4,999/month API Access plan is for developers, integrators, data teams, and organisations that need programmatic access to Tender Bulletin data. Typical use cases include:

• Feeding tenders into a CRM, ERP, or procurement portal
• Building an internal dashboard for bid teams
• Automating monitoring and reporting across departments or regions
• Partner integrations that require reliable, structured tender data

API customers get REST API access, higher rate limits than the free tier, and API key management from their Tender Bulletin account. The API plan is separate from the R199 subscription — most individual suppliers only need the subscription; software teams and integrators need the API.

The R199/month subscription is for people using Tender Bulletin in a browser: search, save tenders, follow entities, and receive email digests. It is the right choice for owners, estimators, and bid managers who want alerts and a personal workspace.

The R4,999/month API plan is for systems that call Tender Bulletin programmatically. If your product or internal tool needs to query tender records via API — not through the website — you need API access. You can hold both plans if your organisation uses the website for staff and the API for software, but they serve different purposes.

Paid plans on Tender Bulletin are billed monthly via PayFast, South Africa’s trusted payment gateway. When you subscribe or add API access, you complete checkout through PayFast; your subscription renews each month until you cancel.

You can view your plan, billing history, and payment status from your Tender Bulletin account. Invoices and receipts are handled through your account and PayFast according to your payment method.

Prices are shown in South African Rand (ZAR). VAT treatment follows standard PayFast and South African billing rules applicable at checkout.

Yes. You can cancel your subscription or API plan from your Tender Bulletin account settings. Cancellation stops future monthly billing; you keep access until the end of the current paid period you have already been charged for.

You can also upgrade from the subscription to API access if your needs change, or adjust email digest preferences (daily vs weekly) without changing plans. If you cancel and later want alerts again, you can resubscribe at any time — your account and saved preferences are retained where applicable.

No. Tender Bulletin is an independent government tender aggregator. We are not a government department, SOE, or official procurement portal. We collect and organise publicly available tender bulletins so suppliers can search one place instead of dozens of separate sites.

Always verify closing dates, requirements, and submission instructions on the official documents for each tender. Tender Bulletin helps you discover and track opportunities; submission remains with the issuing entity’s process.

Tender Bulletin ingests tender bulletins and related documents from public government and state-entity sources across South Africa. Our systems aggregate listings from national, provincial, municipal, and SOE publishers into a single searchable index on Tender Bulletin.

Data is refreshed as new bulletins are published. Subscriber entity alerts and email digests are built on this pipeline so you are notified when relevant new tenders appear — without manually checking each issuer’s website every day.