
Getting paid on a South African construction contract
Five clauses decide it, the deposit, the certificate, the retention, the escalation provision and the remedy. Each has a date, and the money moves on those dates or not at all.
Open tenders, who is buying, the documents that expire, the prices a rate sheet runs on, the registers, the law, the materials. Read from the portal, the gazette and the record every morning, and laid out here for the people who build, commission and supply.
Refurbishment and Delivery of Turbine Auxiliary Oil Pumps - Seal Oil Pumps, Seal oil Vacuum Pumps, Stator Coolant Pumps and Ammonia Dosing Pumps at Grootvlei Power Station for the period of 5 years
Plumbing, water and sanitation · Gauteng, Balfour · E2182GXMPGROR
Supply And Delivery of Bulk Water Flow Meter Spares, Accessories, And Related Instrumentation Components on an “As and When” Required Basis for A Period of Thirty- Six (36) Months
Plumbing, water and sanitation · Gauteng, JOHANNESBURG · JWOPS075/24
Request for quotation to hire tables and chairs for Heritage Day.
Furniture and loose FF&E · Gauteng, Salvokop · RFQ-112740
Supply and Delivery of small Tools with some Local Content item to IBTC in Roodeplaat in the Gauteng Province.
Tools, plant and site consumables · Gauteng, Standerton · CTC 27 Small Tools
INVITATION FOR OPEN TENDER TO PROCURE BUILDING MAINTENANCE CONSUMABLES, TOOLS & EQUIPMENT AS AND WHEN REQUIRED FOR 36 MONTHS TO SUPPLIER PARK DEVELOPMENT COMPANY SOC LTD T/A AIDC IN ROSSLYN, PRETORIA.
Tools, plant and site consumables · Gauteng, Pretoria · AIDC-T02-2026/27
NCC comment closes on PIRB's application to be an accredited Consumer Protection Group: decides whether a PIRB registration carries a complaints route
COIDA: outstanding 2025 and prior-year Returns of Earnings must be submitted, or the Commissioner may assess on estimate (s 83(6)(a)) and add up to 10% (s 83(6)(b))
National and provincial fiscal year end: departments spend furniture, tools and PPE budgets in January to March; the furniture programmes land here
Municipal financial year end: the June/July tender peak is the run-up to it
Electrical · Tools, plant and site consumables · Plumbing, water and sanitation
Electrical · Plumbing, water and sanitation · Tools, plant and site consumables
Ground and bulk · Concrete and cement · Plumbing, water and sanitation
Tools, plant and site consumables · Electrical · Plumbing, water and sanitation
Plumbing, water and sanitation · Tools, plant and site consumables · Electrical
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Five clauses decide it, the deposit, the certificate, the retention, the escalation provision and the remedy. Each has a date, and the money moves on those dates or not at all.

One completed contract at the next grade's track record minimum, the turnover and capital beside it, and a 21-day pack. The grade follows the work.

A grade and a class, read together. One live panel this week draws its line at 6CE, and the rest of the board draws it everywhere from grade 1 to grade 9.

The Act makes trustees maintain the common property. It does not say how to find the contractor, compare the quotes or check the registers first. This does.

Nine grades, nine ceilings. The grade that earns is the one that matches work actually on the board this week, not the one at the top of the table.

South Africa's economy contracted in the second quarter while construction grew, and the gap between buildings and works tells you which jobs to chase.
The panel
Every register on this desk is checked before a panel contractor quotes. One quote from one company, 85% on award, 15% on completion.