Work your competitors cannot touch.

Every other test on this site is about work you cannot have. This one is about work that is being held for you. The Citizen Economic Empowerment reservation is a genuine competitive advantage handed to 100% citizen-owned contractors by policy, and the reason it is so rarely collected on is mundane: the thirteen reserved rows are buried in a register that has never been published in a form anyone can search.

So we published it. All 397 pairs, the reservations marked, free to anyone who wants to read it. Then we watch those categories for the companies that qualify, and say so on the alert when a notice is reserved.

The rule behind it

Some procurement categories are reserved for 100% citizen-owned companies under the Citizen Economic Empowerment policy, and Rev 06 marks these in the category row. A company that does not meet the ownership threshold is not eligible, regardless of code, sub-code or grade. s.76(1) of the Act reserves works, services and supplies procurement for citizens or citizen contractors except as otherwise provided; s.94 disqualifies unregistered contractors outright.

The test runs against the ownership recorded on your profile. If we do not hold that, we cannot rule on it, and we will ask rather than assume — an assumption in either direction costs you: guess citizen and you are sent work you cannot win, guess otherwise and we hide the best notices you will see all year.

The list, in the open

Thirteen of the 397 pairs are reserved. They are marked in the register, alongside the grade flags, and nothing about them is proprietary — it is public policy that was simply never made legible.

Read them yourself: the PPRA code register, filtered by the citizen-reserved flag.