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Matching System Guide
How Tenders-SA matches tenders to your company profile and readiness
Overview
The matching system helps you focus on tenders that fit your business profile, operating areas, compliance status, and tender-readiness signals. It is designed to reduce manual searching and highlight opportunities that deserve review.
Important: A high match score is a decision-support signal, not a guarantee that your company is eligible or that you will win. Always read the original tender requirements before applying.
What Matching Uses
Matching quality depends on the information available in your account. The most important inputs are your company profile, industries, provinces or service areas, B-BBEE information, document readiness, CIDB grade where relevant, and tender-specific requirements.
1
Complete Your Company Profile
Add accurate company details, industries, capabilities, experience, operating areas, and key personnel.
2
Upload Current Documents
Keep tax, CIPC, B-BBEE, CIDB, financial, insurance, and other compliance documents current in the document vault.
3
Set Preferences
Use industry, province, and tender-type preferences where available so recommendations are aligned to your target work.
4
Review Recommendations
Use match signals to prioritize review, then check the tender detail page and source instructions before preparing an application.
Understanding Scores
Match and readiness scores summarize how well your profile appears to fit an opportunity. Higher scores usually mean the tender aligns better with your profile and available documents. Lower scores can still be useful when the tender is strategic, but they usually need more manual review.
How to Improve Matches
- Keep profile data complete and current
- Add specific industries and capabilities instead of broad descriptions only
- Upload required compliance documents before they expire
- Review B-BBEE, tax, CSD, CIDB, and financial readiness before applying
- Use the Readiness Assessment to identify gaps
- Ignore or refine irrelevant opportunities so your workflow stays focused
- Add specific industries and capabilities instead of broad descriptions only
- Upload required compliance documents before they expire
- Review B-BBEE, tax, CSD, CIDB, and financial readiness before applying
- Use the Readiness Assessment to identify gaps
- Ignore or refine irrelevant opportunities so your workflow stays focused
Where Matching Appears
Matching signals may appear on your dashboard, matched tender views, tender cards, tender detail pages, alerts, and application workflows. The exact display depends on the current page and available tender data.
Best practice: Treat matching as a shortlist builder. Use it to decide what to inspect first, then use the tender documents and issuer instructions as the final source of truth.