Metropolitan municipality
Nelson Mandela Bay tenders — Gqeberha metro
Nelson Mandela Bay is the Eastern Cape's largest metro — Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth, together with Kariega and Despatch — and its procurement is shaped by a port, a motor-manufacturing corridor and a long-running water security problem.
- Open now
- 7
- On record
- 42
- Awards published
- 0
- Total awarded
- R 0
Open Nelson Mandela Bay tenders
Tourism marketing and development services
Advertising and market research · Eastern Cape · closes 2026/09/03
Leasing of office space / accomodation, archives and parking bays in the port elizabeth cbd
Rental and leasing activities · Eastern Cape · closes 2026/09/03
Professional engineering services: design and monitor the installation of civil engineering services in vastrap…
Services: Professional · Eastern Cape · closes 2026/09/03
Framework agreement for the construction of civil engineering services 6CE or higher: human settlements
Construction · Eastern Cape · closes 2026/09/03
Gqeberha ward councillor’s leasing for office space/ accomodation corporate services (ward 12, ward 39, ward 48 & ward…
Rental and leasing activities · Eastern Cape · closes 2026/09/10
SCM/1331/S/2025-2026
Rental and leasing activities · Eastern Cape · closes 2026/09/10
Design, layout and placement of advertisement, social media buying and media monitoring
Publishing activities · Eastern Cape · closes 2026/09/10
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Open work by category
- Rental and leasing activities — 3
- Advertising and market research — 1
- Construction — 1
- Publishing activities — 1
- Services: Professional — 1
Open work by province
- Eastern Cape — 7
About Nelson Mandela Bay procurement
Water dominates. The metro has spent years under drought and supply pressure, and the resulting programme of boreholes, reticulation upgrades, leak reduction and treatment work is the single most consistent source of civil tenders it publishes. Contractors with pipeline, pump and bulk earthworks capability see the most relevant volume here.
The motor-manufacturing corridor around Kariega and the Coega industrial development zone give the metro an industrial services profile unlike the other Eastern Cape buyers, so electrical, mechanical and facilities work appears more regularly than the province's rural municipalities would suggest.
Names cause real confusion in searches and documents. The city is Gqeberha, was Port Elizabeth, and the metro is Nelson Mandela Bay — all three are still in active use, and the tender feed uses the metro name. Uitenhage is likewise now Kariega. Searching for the old names on the feed itself returns nothing.
Where Nelson Mandela Bay is tendering
Open tenders right now. Counts come from the same feed as the list above.
Nelson Mandela Bay tenders — questions
- Is Nelson Mandela Bay the same as Port Elizabeth?
- Nelson Mandela Bay is the metropolitan municipality; Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth, is the city within it, along with Kariega, formerly Uitenhage, and Despatch. The tender feed publishes under the metro name, so that is what this page tracks.
- What kind of work does the metro tender most?
- Water infrastructure above all — boreholes, reticulation, leak reduction and treatment — driven by years of supply pressure, alongside roads, electricity and the industrial services that come with the port and the motor-manufacturing corridor.
- Does this include Coega or the port?
- Only where the municipality itself is the buyer. Coega and the port authority are separate entities with their own procurement, and their tenders appear under their own names on the feed rather than under the metro.
- How does this differ from the Eastern Cape province page?
- This page covers only tenders published by Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The Eastern Cape page covers every buyer in the province, including provincial departments, Buffalo City and the district and local municipalities, so it is the wider view.
- Can I be alerted to new Nelson Mandela Bay tenders?
- Yes. An Industrial Hub account lets you filter by buyer, province and trade and receive matching tenders by email and WhatsApp as they publish, rather than returning to check a list that may already have moved on.