Tender Smart, Tembisa

Key Products or Services
Provincial Construction Cost Intelligence Engine (PCCIE™)
This AI pricing engine provides data-driven pricing trained on real South African Bills of Quantities (BOQs), awarded contracts, and submitted tenders. It ensures that contractor rates reflect actual market conditions, offering a significant advantage over outdated rate books.
Tender Outcome Prediction Engine (TOPE™)
TOPE™ analyzes a contractor's price, B-BBEE score, compliance completeness, and historical award patterns to predict the probability of winning a tender. This empowers contractors to bid strategically and with confidence, avoiding blind submissions.
B-BBEE Optimisation and Compliance Engine (BOCE™)
BOCE™ allows contractors to simulate their B-BBEE functionality score before submission, identifying specific gaps that are costing them points. This feature is designed to help turn potential disqualifications into qualifications by enabling proactive adjustments (BOCE™ launches in 2026).
Contractor-Contributed Pricing Network (CCPN™)
The CCPN™ creates a compounding data moat where every tender priced on TenderSmart makes the platform smarter for all users. This growing network of anonymized, aggregated pricing data enhances accuracy over time, providing an invaluable, non-replicable competitive advantage.
Unique Differentiators
TenderSmart stands out as a data-compounding intelligence system, not just a software tool, leveraging four proprietary engines (PCCIE™, TOPE™, BOCE™, CCPN™) built on real South African BOQs and market data. Unlike competitors focusing solely on tender discovery, TenderSmart specifically addresses the costly problem of pricing accuracy, win probability, and B-BBEE optimization. Its Contractor-Contributed Pricing Network (CCPN™) provides a unique, self-improving data advantage that cannot be replicated. Furthermore, it's founded by Sipho Moganedi, who brings 37 years of experience advising South African contractors, ensuring the tool is deeply aligned with their specific needs.
Benefits and Outcomes
Customers can expect to stop guessing what to charge and increase their tender win rates by leveraging data-driven pricing intelligence. The platform helps avoid costly underquoting or
overquoting, ensuring bids are competitive and profitable. Contractors can build a CIDB-compliant BOQ in under 4 hours, significantly streamlining their bid preparation process. Additionally, it enables B-BBEE score optimization, helping to prevent disqualifications and improve overall tender success, ultimately leading to more revenue won and greater pricing confidence.
Features and Capabilities
TenderSmart offers a comprehensive dashboard for project tracking, basic and advanced BOQ templates, and access to community or AI-powered provincial rate data. Key capabilities include the PCCIE™ AI pricing engine for live market rates and margin stress testing, a Pricing Confidence Score, and the TOPE™ win probability scoring system. It also provides the BOCE™ B-BBEE optimisation engine for score simulation and gap identification, CIDB-compliant PDF export, and priority support in higher tiers. The platform allows users to describe their project, location, and scope to instantly pull relevant BOQ templates and rate data, all accessible via a smartphone.
Pricing and Plans
TenderSmart offers a 'Starter' plan which is free forever, includes a dashboard, 1 active project, basic BOQ template, and community rate data access, but excludes AI pricing, win probability, and B-BBEE optimisation. The 'Professional' plan costs R699/month (or R7,548/year saving 10%), offering all Starter features plus unlimited projects, PCCIE™, TOPE™, BOCE™, CIDB-compliant export, margin stress testing, and priority email support, with a 30-day free trial. 'Business' is R1,499/month, adding 5 user seats, white-label documents, and a team dashboard. The 'Enterprise' plan is R2,999/month, including unlimited users, API access, raw data export, and dedicated QS support.
Expected Performance
Users can expect to build a compliant Bill of Quantities (BOQ) in under 4 hours. While specific win rates vary, the platform aims to significantly improve a contractor's probability of winning tenders by providing data-driven pricing and predictive insights. The goal is to bid with increased confidence, potentially turning disqualifications into qualifications through B-BBEE optimization.
Additional Information
TenderSmart is specifically designed for CIDB Grade 2 through Grade 9 contractors across all categories in South Africa. The platform is built for ease of use, requiring no technical skills and functioning effectively from a smartphone. Individual BOQs and internal cost structures are kept confidential, with the CCPN™ network utilizing only anonymised, aggregated data to protect competitive strategies. The B-BBEE scoring feature (BOCE™) is scheduled to launch in 2026, with Professional and Business subscribers receiving automatic access.

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