Everything you need to know about finding, tracking and publishing public tenders on Bidanga.
Bidanga is a pan-African public procurement platform that brings tenders from all 54 African countries into one searchable database, standardised to the open OCDS 1.1.5 format.
Browsing and searching recent tenders is free and requires no account. A free account unlocks favourites, alerts and contacting issuers; paid plans add history, exports and API access.
From official national procurement portals, sub-national governments and major international buyers (UN, World Bank, African Development Bank), plus tenders published directly on Bidanga by public bodies — all normalised to a common format.
Use the Tenders page to filter by country, sector and deadline. Each result links to a full tender page with key dates, budget, eligibility and documents.
Click "Save to Favourites" on any tender (a free account is required). Your favourites are gathered in your dashboard.
Create an alert from a tender or your dashboard. Bidanga emails you when new tenders match your criteria; paid plans allow more alerts.
On a tender page, click "Contact". After logging in, fill a short form (subject and message); Bidanga forwards it by email to the issuer, who replies to you directly by email.
To prevent spam and keep exchanges traceable. Your email is used only as the reply-to address so the issuer can answer you directly.
No. Bidanga relays your first message by email, then the conversation continues directly between you and the issuer over email.
Public institutions and governments, through Bidanga GOV. Publishing your tenders on Bidanga is free for public buyers.
A step-by-step wizard guides you through type, sector, object, budget, eligibility, schedule and documents. Publication is immediate and your tender goes live across 54 countries.
Yes. You can amend a published tender at any time from "My publications"; changes are published immediately and companies that favourited it are notified by email. You can also withdraw it.
To personalise your experience around your country. Detection is by IP at country level only (no GPS), and you can confirm or correct it.
No. Once you confirm your country it is remembered — for signed-in users it is saved to your profile — so you are not asked again.
No. Only your country is detected, never a precise GPS position, and it is used solely to tailor content.
The Open Contracting Data Standard is an international open format for procurement data. Bidanga normalises every tender to OCDS 1.1.5 for consistency and interoperability.
Yes. On paid plans you can export tender data, for example for your own tracking or analysis.
Yes. API access is available on the Enterprise plan to integrate Bidanga data into your own tools and workflows.
A free plan for searching and browsing, Premium for professionals (more alerts, history, exports), and Enterprise for organisations (API, higher limits, priority support). See the Pricing page.
Bidanga is available in five languages: English, French, Portuguese, Arabic and Spanish.
Your data is used only to operate your account and the features you use (favourites, alerts, messages). Contact details you submit to an issuer are shared only with that issuer.