Medical Research Council of South Africa tenders 2026: live opportunities and supplier requirements

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Tender	Where	Value band	Closes
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) - HIGH-PERFORMANCE ION CHROMATOGRAPHY (HPIC) PLATFORM AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES Medical Research Council of South Africa	National	Not published	10 Nov 2026
Provision of an Imaging System for Nucleic acid/protein gels and Western blots for the Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town (UCT) under the DSTI/KfW/SAMRC Support of development and production of vaccines in South Africa Project. Medical Research Council of South Africa	Western Cape	Not published	13 Nov 2026
Supply and delivery of Spectrophotometer with microdrop capabilities for the Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town (UCT) under the DSTI/KfW/SAMRC Support of development and production of vaccines in South Africa Project. Medical Research Council of South Africa	National	Not published	13 Nov 2026
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What Medical Research Council of South Africa ask for

The documents in most of these tender packs

Read from 2 tender packs. Share of packs that ask for each document:

CSD registration (MAAA number)100%

SARS tax compliance status PIN100%

SBD/MBD 1: Invitation to bid100%

SBD/MBD 4: Bidder's disclosure100%

SBD/MBD 6.1: Preference points claim100%

B-BBEE certificate or sworn affidavit100%

Where bids fail: CSD registration (MAAA number), SARS tax compliance status PIN and SBD/MBD 1: Invitation to bid are asked for most often. A missing, unsigned or expired one makes the bid non-responsive before the price is read.

At a glance

Size, grading and briefings

Compulsory briefings: 0 of 4 open tenders. Miss one and the bid is disqualified.

Buyer report card

How Medical Research Council of South Africa has bought before

Different winners: 25 in 22 awards
Top 3 winners took 27% of awards. Last 2 years (Aug 2025 – Sep 2026), panels of more than 5 companies left out

Winner size: EME 25% · QSE 6% · Large 69%
Enterprise size recorded for 16 winners, Aug 2025 – Sep 2026

Typical award: R1.9m
Middle half R82k – R19.6m; 22 of 22 awards stated an amount, Aug 2025 – Sep 2026

Patterns from public records (eTenders adverts, bidder lists and award notices). They describe what happened before, not whether a bid will win. Stats with too few records behind them are not shown. EME = exempted micro enterprise, QSE = qualifying small enterprise.

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