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eTender Publication Portal
Q:When will the eTender Publication Portal be live?The eTender Publication Portal went live on 1 April 2015.
Q: How do you get access to the eTender Publication Portal?
Request access by filling in the online access form. You can get it on the OCPO website under “Buyer’s Area.”
Q:When we want to publish tenders on the portal – do we have to travel to National Treasury from the departments to do so?
The eTender Publication Portal is a web-based solution that can be accessed from any internet browser. SCM practitioners can request access to publish their organisations’ bids by filling in the system access application form located on the OCPO’s website under the buyer’s area.
Q:We have to email all documents for the publishing of tenders – sometimes the document pack is too large for this.
Departments must request access to the eTender Publication Portal to load the tender documents themselves. The eTender Publication Portal have a file size limit of 50Mb.
Q:“How can a published document be removed from or amended on the eTender Publication
Portal?
Once a document is published on the eTender Publication Portal it can’t be removed. Any amendments on any document can be uploaded under the amendment section.
Q: Is there a set minimum threshold for advertising on the eTender Publication Portal?
All competitively advertised requirements over the threshold value set for the relevant organ of state must be published on the eTender Publication Portal. National and provincial departments and public entities are required to publish bids above R500 000 and municipalities must publish all competitive bids above R200 000.
Q: What are the requirements for a R100 000 contract?
The OCPO is currently working on legislative alignment between the planning and contracting thresholds. This would result in the phasing out of the CRA and introduction of an online procurement planning platform for all procurement over the threshold value for the relevant OoS.
Q:Categorisation of tender cancellations according to departments would be more useful to users. We can currently view tenders easily, but not cancellations.
Noted. The OCPO is currently improving functionality that will allow for better filtering and include subscription services.
Q:Do we get an email confirmation from NT when our request for tender publishing has been completed?
Not at the moment, because the Treasury is not the only organisation that publishes tenders. Organs of state are required to request access to the eTender Publication Portal to publish their own tenders on the platform.
Q:How do you capture tenders awarded? In the instance of single source suppliers, how do you capture these?
Limited bids can only be loaded after award by publishing the advert and award information together.