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Agricultural Research Council tenders
Between its research farms and its laboratories, the Agricultural Research Council buys like a large commercial farming operation and a scientific institute at the same time.
- Open now
- 7
- On record
- 262
- Awards published
- 5
- Total awarded
- R 0
Open the Agricultural Research Council tenders
Appointment of a panel of service providers for the provision of heating, ventilation and Air conditioning (HVAC)…
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning · Mpumalanga · closes 2026/09/21
The appointment for the labour relations panel bid for a period of three years
Services: Professional · National · closes 2026/09/23
The procurement of a suitably qualified service provider for the provision of managed and hosted hybrid mesh firewall…
Information service activities · National · closes 2026/09/28
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Supplies: Medical · National · closes 2026/09/28
The appointment of a service provider to conduct specialised geotechnical drilling assessment of the planned centre of…
Civil engineering · Gauteng · closes 2026/09/30
The procurement of a suitably qualified service provider for the provision of mimecast email security services for a…
Information service activities · National · closes 2026/10/06
The Procurement of a suitably qualified and experienced service providers to submit proposals for the provision of a…
Information service activities · National · closes 2026/10/23
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- 3 Information service activities
- 1 Civil engineering
- 1 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning
- 1 Services: Professional
- 1 Supplies: Medical
Open work by province
- 5 National
- 1 Gauteng
- 1 Mpumalanga
About the Agricultural Research Council procurement
The institute network is spread across the country and each site buys for its own discipline: animal production and veterinary research around Pretoria, small grain work in the eastern Free State, grain crops in the North West, deciduous fruit and wine research in the Western Cape, and subtropical crops in Mpumalanga. A supplier bidding to the Agricultural Research Council is usually supplying one campus, not a national contract.
Farm inputs and equipment make up a category almost no other public buyer has. Seed, fertiliser, agricultural remedies, animal feed, veterinary consumables, irrigation systems, tunnels and glasshouses, tractors and implements, fencing and cold storage all appear, and much of it is time critical, because a planting or breeding window does not move to suit a procurement cycle.
The laboratory side looks entirely different. Analytical instruments, reagents and consumables, sample analysis, calibration, controlled environment chambers and specialised software are procured against tight technical specifications, and the Agricultural Research Council will normally want local service support and traceable calibration rather than simply the lowest quoted price.
Where the Agricultural Research Council is tendering
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Questions about the Agricultural Research Council tenders
- Where are the research sites located?
- Across the country, with campuses and experimental farms in Gauteng, the Free State, North West, the Western Cape, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and elsewhere. Notices normally state the delivery point, which matters when the goods are perishable or the site is genuinely rural.
- Is agricultural experience needed to supply?
- For inputs and farm equipment, familiarity with the sector and with the registration requirements applying to fertiliser, feed and agricultural remedies is effectively necessary. For laboratory, construction and general service categories, ordinary sector credentials apply in the usual way.
- Why are some of these tenders so urgent?
- Because biological timing does not negotiate. A trial that has to be planted in a particular week, a herd that has to be fed, or a cold room that has to hold a harvest all impose deadlines the Agricultural Research Council cannot shift for procedural convenience.
- Does this buyer tender construction work?
- Yes, though less prominently. Laboratory refurbishment, glasshouse and tunnel erection, farm buildings, boreholes and irrigation infrastructure, fencing, roads on research farms and general campus maintenance come to market with the usual CIDB grade and class requirements attached.
- What compliance is required to bid here?
- Central Supplier Database registration, tax compliance status, B-BBEE evidence and the standard SBD declarations, plus product registrations where the goods are regulated. Beyond that, the Agricultural Research Council states category specific requirements in the tender document itself.
- How would I hear about these notices?
- They are easy to miss, because a seed or reagent tender does not use the vocabulary a construction-focused search would ever catch. Industrial Hub filters the feed by category and province and sends the matches to email or WhatsApp.