Which tender sources does it read?

The National Treasury eTenders feed (the OCDS API) and any public RSS or Atom feed you add, such as a gazette or a municipality’s tender page. Other portals are listed in the sources registry with the reason they are not connected yet.

Does it submit the bid to the portal for me?

No. Achekam builds and checks the pack, and can e-mail it to the address the buyer prescribes when you press Send. Lodging on a portal or by hand is done by a person, and the proof of lodgement is recorded and verified by a second person.

What does the AI do — and not do?

It reads the buyer’s documents for requirements (each with an exact quote), drafts response sections from your approved capabilities and verified references, structures CVs and reads bills of quantities. A draft that claims a B-BBEE level, registration or document your records do not support is refused, and nothing is sent or approved without a person.

Is the PPPFA scoring built in?

Yes: price points for the 80/20 and 90/10 systems of the 2022 Regulations, and the reverse question — how high can we price for the points we need. Specific-goal points are entered from the tender document; a B-BBEE level is not converted into points.

What happens when we win?

Record the award and Achekam makes the buyer your client, opens the contract and a delivery project with a standard checklist — kick-off, the buyer’s documents, the team, performance bonds, subcontractors’ compliance, delivery and close-out.

Do we need accounting software too?

No. Tenders & Bids keeps no books. If you want invoicing, payroll or your ledger later, add Achekam Business from your workspace.

Win more tenders, with every bid built to pass the compliance check

Achekam reads the National Treasury eTenders feed for you, scores each tender against your profile, checks your CSD and tax status against the closing date, and runs the whole bid — compliance matrix, pricing and PPPFA points, response, CVs, references, signatures and the submission pack — in one workspace. When you win, the delivery project opens itself.

Achekam Tenders & Bids: Find the tenders worth bidding for, decide fast, build a compliant bid with your team, lodge it on time — and start delivering the day you win. For Businesses that bid for tenders.

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The problems it solves

Tenders found too late. The scout reads the eTenders feed and your own feeds on a schedule, scores every tender 0–100 against your profile and shows what is new today.
Bids thrown out at the admin pass. The qualification gate and the compliance matrix show every missing or expired document before the closing date, never after it.
Certificates that expired without anyone noticing. One compliance vault: every document with its expiry, lit green, amber or red, matched to each bid’s requirements.
Pricing rebuilt in spreadsheets every time. Bills of quantities read from the buyer’s documents, priced at your rate card, locked as a hashed version and scored with the PPPFA formula.
Nobody knows where the bid stands. Eight dated milestones from the decision to the closing date, an owner for each, and a readiness figure the whole team sees.
Winning, then starting from scratch. The award opens the client, the contract and a delivery project on a standard checklist — mobilise, deliver, close out.

What it includes

Find and decide

Tender scouting — The National Treasury eTenders feed and your own RSS or Atom feeds, read on your schedule, duplicates merged, every source’s last read shown.
Fit score and recommendations — Each tender scored 0–100 on your keywords, services, provinces, value and time to closing; Recommended and New today views.
Eligibility and the qualification gate — Your CSD and SARS tax compliance checked against the closing date, CIDB grade and compulsory briefings flagged.
Governed bid / no-bid — A decision with its reason and scores; above your threshold a bid needs a partner’s approval. Deciding to bid opens the bid workspace.

Build the bid

Bid workspace and milestones — Eight weighted milestones dated back from the closing date, owners, blockers and a countdown.
Compliance matrix — Requirements read from the tender documents with their exact quote, or the standard South African checklist — matched to your vault.
Response Studio — Twelve standard sections drafted from your approved capabilities and verified references, approved by someone other than the author, exported on your letterhead.
Pricing, BOQ and PPPFA — Bills of quantities imported from Excel, Word, PDF or a photo; your rate card; locked versions; 80/20 and 90/10 price points.
CVs, team and references — CVs in one template, the bid team with registrations checked against the closing date, references verified by a second person.

Lodge and follow through

Compliance document vault — About twenty document types with expiry dates, lit green, amber or red, scanned and fingerprinted on upload.
Signing and the submission pack — Your own signature and initials placed on the buyer’s PDFs; the pack compiled with every file fingerprinted; envelope labels printed.
Dispatch, schedule and reminders — The pack e-mailed to the confirmed address with tracking, briefings and closings on one schedule, reminders before every date.
Analytics and debriefs — The funnel from found to won, win and no-bid rates, and lost-bid debriefs by reason, buyer and province.

Win and deliver

Award handover — The award opens the buyer as your client, the contract and a delivery project with a standard checklist.
Projects and tasks — Delivery projects with tasks, owners, due dates and a timeline, for the contracts you win.
Clients and contacts — The buyers you work for, with their contact people — a clean list, not an accounting firm’s client file.
Requests and signatures — Ask the buyer and your subcontractors for documents through a secure link, and have documents signed.
Leads and pipeline — The private-sector opportunities and enquiries beside your tenders.

How it works

Tell it what you bid for. Your services, provinces, keywords, value range and CIDB grade: the scout starts reading the feeds.
Load your compliance documents. CSD report, tax compliance, B-BBEE, CIPC and the rest, with their expiry dates.
Decide and build the bid. Bid or no-bid with a reason; the workspace, the matrix, the pricing and the response follow.
Lodge it, then deliver what you win. The pack, the proof of lodgement and the follow-ups — and a delivery project when you are awarded.

Key capabilities

Find and decide — The eTenders feed read for you, every tender scored against your profile, and a governed bid / no-bid.
The bid desk — Milestones dated back from the closing date, the compliance matrix, the Response Studio, CVs and references in one workspace.
Pricing and PPPFA points — Bills of quantities from any document, your rate card, locked versions and the 80/20 and 90/10 price points.
Compliance vault — Every compliance document with its expiry, lit green, amber or red, attached to each bid.
Submit, track and deliver — The submission pack, tracked dispatch, reminders, and a delivery project when you win.

The platform foundation

Tenders & Bids runs on the shared foundation: the same sign-in and two-factor authentication, roles that decide who approves, the document store with malware scanning, governed AI that only drafts for a person to approve, and every workspace held apart by row-level security in the database.

Plans

Plan	For	Monthly	Annual	Trial	Includes
Tenders Starter	Businesses	R 1 499 a month	R 14 988 a year	14-day free trial	3 users, 20 GB storage. AI assistant; Automation centre; Leads and pipeline; Tenders
Tenders Professional	Businesses	R 3 499 a month	R 34 980 a year	14-day free trial	10 users, 50 GB storage. AI assistant; Automation centre; Mailing list and campaigns; Leads and pipeline; Advanced fields; Process designer
Tenders Enterprise	Businesses	R 7 499 a month	R 74 988 a year	14-day free trial	25 users, 50 GB storage. AI assistant; Automation centre; Mailing list and campaigns; Leads and pipeline; Advanced fields; Process designer

Prices as published today; VAT and billing terms as shown when you sign up.

Questions

Which tender sources does it read?: The National Treasury eTenders feed (the OCDS API) and any public RSS or Atom feed you add, such as a gazette or a municipality’s tender page. Other portals are listed in the sources registry with the reason they are not connected yet.
Does it submit the bid to the portal for me?: No. Achekam builds and checks the pack, and can e-mail it to the address the buyer prescribes when you press Send. Lodging on a portal or by hand is done by a person, and the proof of lodgement is recorded and verified by a second person.
What does the AI do — and not do?: It reads the buyer’s documents for requirements (each with an exact quote), drafts response sections from your approved capabilities and verified references, structures CVs and reads bills of quantities. A draft that claims a B-BBEE level, registration or document your records do not support is refused, and nothing is sent or approved without a person.
Is the PPPFA scoring built in?: Yes: price points for the 80/20 and 90/10 systems of the 2022 Regulations, and the reverse question — how high can we price for the points we need. Specific-goal points are entered from the tender document; a B-BBEE level is not converted into points.
What happens when we win?: Record the award and Achekam makes the buyer your client, opens the contract and a delivery project with a standard checklist — kick-off, the buyer’s documents, the team, performance bonds, subcontractors’ compliance, delivery and close-out.
Do we need accounting software too?: No. Tenders & Bids keeps no books. If you want invoicing, payroll or your ledger later, add Achekam Business from your workspace.