{"version":"1","record":{"id":"maquassi-hills-borehole-exploration-equipping-tender-2026","canonicalSlug":"maquassi-hills-borehole-exploration-equipping-tender-2026","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/maquassi-hills-borehole-exploration-equipping-tender-2026","language":"en","title":"Maquassi Hills seeks bids for borehole exploration and equipment","summary":"The municipality invites civil-engineering contractors to bid on borehole exploration and equipping work by 26 October.","body":["Maquassi Hills Local Municipality in South Africa has issued tender MHLM/MIG/09/2026/27 for underground resource management, design, construction, monitoring of borehole exploration and borehole equipping. The one-page advert sets the submission deadline for 26 October 2026 at 12:00; it does not specify a timezone. It requires CIDB grading 6CEPE/7CE or higher, with qualifying joint ventures and certain emerging enterprises addressed in the tender criteria.","Bid documents are stated to be free from the National Treasury eTender portal, and bids must be placed in the municipal tender box in Wolmaransstad. The advert does not specify the boreholes’ fluid or intended use, and the full technical tender package was not reviewed. No notice publication date or budget is asserted; 10 September was document availability, not a verified notice date."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Maquassi Hills seeks bids for borehole exploration and equipment\n\nThe municipality invites civil-engineering contractors to bid on borehole exploration and equipping work by 26 October.\n\nMaquassi Hills Local Municipality in South Africa has issued tender MHLM/MIG/09/2026/27 for underground resource management, design, construction, monitoring of borehole exploration and borehole equipping. The one-page advert sets the submission deadline for 26 October 2026 at 12:00; it does not specify a timezone. It requires CIDB grading 6CEPE/7CE or higher, with qualifying joint ventures and certain emerging enterprises addressed in the tender criteria.\n\nBid documents are stated to be free from the National Treasury eTender portal, and bids must be placed in the municipal tender box in Wolmaransstad. The advert does not specify the boreholes’ fluid or intended use, and the full technical tender package was not reviewed. No notice publication date or budget is asserted; 10 September was document availability, not a verified notice date.\n\nTender notice\n\nIssuer: Maquassi Hills Local Municipality\n\nNotice reference: MHLM/MIG/09/2026/27\n\nNotice type: Request for tenders\n\nTender status: Open\n\nNotice date: Unknown\n\nSubmission deadline: 2026-10-26T12:00\n\nDeadline timezone is not stated.\n\nLocal time as stated; no UTC offset is recorded. 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