There is an urgent need to review the entire tendering process in the public sector. The tendering rules and regulations should be tied to whether the services or goods sought serve an economic ...

Public procurement has for several years been portrayed as a “brick wall negotiation” where seller and buyer exchange information by “throwing it over the wall” without any dialogue. The last couple ...

We’re living in tender times, and no, not Otis Redding’s soft-hearted kind. We’re talking about a procurement landscape where being on the treasury’s restricted suppliers list (even temporarily) can ...

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To ensure there is no shortage of medicines in state-run hospitals, the Maharashtra Drugs Procurement Authority has decided to close the tendering process once and for all as it has been allegedly ...

In South Africa, there's been growing concern about government organisations publishing tenders and RFQs with tight deadlines. This trend, while indicative of a dynamic economic environment, poses ...

One of the earliest stories amaBhungane published — in April 2010 — was about the suspicious awarding of a tender to a company linked to the then minister of communications. Last week, we published a ...