Tender creation assistant
One page, two jobs
Upload an old tender or RFQ. It is only the template. The description is what this new tender must contain.
- Upload a previous tender or RFQ. It is the format only, not the new notice.
- Read the sample for how this organisation usually writes: headings, returnables, and tone.
- Write the new title and the procuring entity.
- Write the description as the new scope: what is supplied, where, and for how long.
- Set closing date, briefing date, and whether the briefing is compulsory.
- Add CIDB and the contact email.
- Check draft completeness: title, entity, description, closing date, contact email.
- Then run the same pre-publish review as the other tab.
Upload the tender you already wrote, or paste a published link. That upload is the notice. It is reviewed, not used as a template.
- Upload the draft already written, or paste a link to a published tender.
- That upload is the notice. It is not a template.
- A link is not fetched. Paste the invitation wording so the text can be checked.
- What is missing: preference points, SBD forms, CSD, tax PIN, appeal path, closing date and time, contact, bid validity, evaluation method, functionality pass mark, CIDB, price schedule.
- Loopholes: brand with no or equivalent, open-ended phrases, price to be negotiated, RFQ on a large value, eligibility narrowed to one supplier, JV or fronting opening, scoring that can be gamed.
- How to improve: each finding gives the problem, why it matters, and a replacement line.
- Returnables: CSD report, SARS PIN, B-BBEE affidavit, CIPC, SBD 1, 4, 6.1, 8 and 9, briefing register if compulsory, price schedule with quantities unchanged.
- Legal frame in force: Constitution s217, PFMA or MFMA, PPPFA 2000, Preferential Procurement Regulations 2022. The 2024 Act was struck down on 17 September 2026.