A competitive procurement method that limits requests for tenders to suppliers, contractors or service providers already shortlisted by a procuring entity.

For obtaining competitive tenders for services which are creative in nature and which require that part of the services be carried as part of the tender.

Open tenders have no allocated minimum expenditure amount whereas the maximum is determined by the budget allocated for the particular procurement. 

Renewable business documents tend to be tricky to keep track of and, at times, bidders tend to discover they are using expired tender documents too late in the tendering process.

To DO or NOT to do? Here’s a list of some of the important things that you, as a tendering entity, needs to be cognizant of as you engage in public tendering.