Windows · local-first · South African public tenders
TenderMate reads the tender pack on your own computer. It finds the closing time, the compulsory briefing, the forms the buyer expects and the documents you must attach — and shows the sentence and page each answer came from.
(01) What it checks
Tender discovery is crowded. TenderMate starts where the listing ends: after you decide to bid, when eleven documents, four dates and a form set have to agree with each other.
Digital PDFs, Word files and spreadsheets are read locally. Scanned pages are read with the OCR engine already built into Windows. Every fact keeps its file, page and exact sentence, so you can check the claim instead of trusting it.
CSD, SARS TCS PIN, B-BBEE, COIDA, CIPC, CIDB, municipal clearance, insurance and the rest, each with an expiry and a reminder. If a certificate's own pages state an earlier expiry than the one you typed, the earlier date wins.
Every document the tender demands is matched against your registry. The state says present, expired, missing or “matched but no file attached”. A tick only counts when a person made it and the evidence is still valid.
Drafts for the full SBD and MBD family — 1, 2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4, 5, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8 and 9 — built from your registry and the pack. Prices, declarations and signatures stay yours to complete.
Addenda are tracked. When two documents state different closing or briefing dates and neither says what replaced what, TenderMate shows both with their pages and refuses to pick one quietly.
Export copies only the documents that are present, unexpired and actually matched, with a manifest of gaps, forms still to complete and warnings. Nothing is signed or sent.
(02) How it works
Company details and certificates go into the registry once. Files are copied into local storage and mirrored into ordinary folders you can open in Explorer.
Discover syncs the National Treasury eTenders feed. One button downloads the listed documents, analyses them and adds the tender to your list.
Readiness shows what is missing or expired before submission. Eligibility gates stay unknown when the registry cannot prove them — never a silent pass.
Export the bundle, complete the pack's own forms, record the submission reference and receipt. The audit trail stays with the tender.
(03) What it won't do
A tool that guesses in a tender is worse than no tool. These are deliberate boundaries, not missing features.
(04) Download
Extract the folder, double-click TenderMate.cmd, and your browser opens the
app. Keep the small black window open while you work — closing it stops TenderMate.
The app is not code-signed, so Windows may show “Windows protected your PC”. Choose More info, then Run anyway — and only if you know where the file came from.
Your records live outside the app folder, in
%USERPROFILE%\TenderMate and %LOCALAPPDATA%\TenderCopilot,
so replacing the app never touches them. Updating to 0.48 from the earlier name moves
your existing folder across once, by itself.
(05) Questions
No. The database, documents and page images stay in your Windows user folders. Discover fetches public tender listings; an update check reads one small JSON file. Neither sends anything about you or your documents.
No, and it is off until you turn it on. The default is a local model you run yourself, so nothing leaves the machine. If you point it at an online service, you consent on every run, and every AI finding has to quote the page to be accepted.
It drafts them from your registry and the pack: names, numbers, dates and page-cited facts. Prices, points claimed, yes/no declarations and signatures are left blank on purpose.
Replace the app folder — by hand, or with the built-in update check if this copy was given an update address. Records live outside the folder, so they are never touched. There is no uninstaller and nothing is written to the registry.
South African public tenders published through the National Treasury eTenders OCDS feed, plus any pack you add yourself — including a pack a private buyer sent you.