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HVAC and refrigeration tenders

HVAC and refrigeration tenders are usually published as building services or plant maintenance rather than under a heading anyone would search for, which is why they are easy to miss.

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Open work by category

  • 38 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning
  • 33 Repair and installation of machinery and equipment
  • 19 Services: Building
  • 6 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
  • 5 Specialised construction activities

Open work by province

  • 23 Gauteng
  • 18 KwaZulu-Natal
  • 17 Eastern Cape
  • 14 Western Cape
  • 6 Mpumalanga

About HVAC and refrigeration procurement

Most public HVAC spend is maintenance rather than installation. Hospitals, government offices, laboratories and cold stores run term contracts covering planned servicing, filter and belt replacement, gas top ups and call outs over one to three years, and those contracts are advertised under building services and plant maintenance headings where a search on the trade name never reaches them.

Refrigerant handling is regulated work. The Pressure Equipment Regulations require a person working on a refrigeration system to be registered, and registration for refrigeration practitioners runs through the SAQCC. A tender for cold room, chiller or air conditioning work will normally ask for that registration and for the number of the practitioner who will do the work, not only for a company profile.

The phase out of HCFC refrigerants under the Montreal Protocol is why refrigerant choice belongs in the bid and not in the handover. Specifications name the refrigerant, ask for recovery and safe disposal of what comes out of an old plant, and treat the retrofit of an existing R22 machine as a scope item with a cost of its own rather than a detail to settle later.

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Questions about HVAC and refrigeration tenders

Where are HVAC tenders published on the eTenders feed?
Under building services, plant maintenance and machinery repair headings rather than under anything named for the trade. That is why a keyword search finds so little of this work, and why this page reads the underlying categories instead of the words a contractor would use.
Do I need SAQCC registration for a public refrigeration contract?
For work on refrigeration and air conditioning plant, yes. The Pressure Equipment Regulations require a registered practitioner, and a public tender will ask for the registration number of the person doing the work as part of the compliance pack it lists.
What does a planned maintenance contract usually cover?
A service frequency per unit, a response time for breakdowns, consumables such as filters and belts, refrigerant top ups, and a rate for work falling outside the scope. The schedule of units is what you price, so check that it matches what is actually on site.
Are HVAC tenders usually once off installations?
Less often than contractors expect. Installation work tends to arrive inside a building contract held by a main contractor, while an HVAC and refrigeration business bids directly for the term maintenance contracts that keep existing plant running year after year.
Are refrigerant top ups included in a maintenance contract?
Read the schedule before you price it. Some contracts include a fixed allowance of refrigerant a year and treat anything beyond it as an extra, some carry it as a rate item, and a few expect the contractor to absorb losses it did not cause.

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