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The Government Gazette
Published as scans, not text. Read locally with two OCR engines and cross-checked, because a misread digit in a code is a missed tender.
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Forty-two sources, checked four times a day.
Tenders in Botswana are not published in one place. They are in a scanned Gazette, on parastatal portals, in council Facebook posts and in the back of a newspaper. Watching one of those is how tenders get missed.
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Parastatal portals
BPC, WUC, BHC, BTC, Botswana Oil and the rest of the state estate, taken from their own feeds where they have one and read off the page where they do not.
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District and town councils
Council work is small, and small is what an OC, A or B grade can actually win. Most of it is announced on a Facebook page and nowhere else.
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Newspaper classifieds
Daily News advertises on Tuesdays and Fridays, and the volume sits in the Mmegi classifieds. Read from the text layer, not by scanning the page.
Donor3 feeds
World Bank, EU and UN notices
Donor-funded work in Botswana is advertised abroad first. Firms here can bid for it, and almost none of them ever see it.
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The PPRA code register
Four appendices of code and sub-code pairs. The numbering has real gaps, and a gap is never guessed shut. See all 397 pairs.
Why four times a day
Closing dates are short and some notices are advertised for a week. Polling at 05:00, 11:00, 17:00 and 23:00 means the longest a notice can sit unseen is six hours, which is the difference between four days to respond and three.
Every one of the 42 sources is named here, with the ones still being verified marked as such.
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