Latest South Africa Laboratory & Scientific Instruments Tenders
62 live tenders, updated daily.
Tender Impulse lists 62 live Laboratory & Scientific Instruments tenders in South Africa, updated every day. Of these, 22 appeared in the past week. South Africa is 18th of the 75 countries with live Laboratory & Scientific Instruments tenders on Tender Impulse. Buyers publishing the most of these tenders at the moment include GENERATION, ESKOM and South African Weather Service. Many of these tenders are classified under Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (38000000), Pollution-monitoring devices (38344000) and Contamination-monitoring devices (38341500). 24 close within the next seven days, so check the deadlines below. The latest one arrived on 13 Oct 2026.
Laboratory and scientific instrument tenders in South Africa
Universities, research institutes, hospitals and testing laboratories buy analytical instruments, microscopes, measuring and testing equipment, laboratory consumables and calibration services. Laboratory, optical and precision equipment is classified under CPV division 38.
Instrument tenders are highly technical and sometimes written around a particular specification, so the full documents are worth reading early. Subscribers can request and translate them, and see which suppliers won recent laboratory contracts in South Africa.
Selling Laboratory & Scientific Instruments to government in South Africa
South African government bids are advertised on the National Treasury's eTender Publication Portal, while municipalities and state-owned entities also publish on their own sites. Suppliers generally need to be on the Central Supplier Database (CSD), and preferential procurement rules give weight to B-BBEE status when bids are scored.



