Frequently asked questions

SangoBids is a public tender monitoring platform for DR Congo. It automatically aggregates procurement notices through the World Bank Procurement Notices, then analyses them to send you personalised alerts by email and iPhone notification.

Go to app.sangobids.com/register and sign up with your e-mail address: you receive a code to enter, no password needed. Registration is free. You can then set your sector and province preferences.

SangoBids covers all 26 provinces of DR Congo, including Kinshasa, Haut-Katanga (Lubumbashi), Kongo-Central, Lualaba, Nord-Kivu (Goma), Sud-Kivu (Bukavu), Tshopo (Kisangani), Kasaï-Central and Ituri.

In DR Congo, the ARMP (public procurement regulatory authority) regulates public procurement and settles appeals, and the DGCMP (General Directorate for Public Procurement Control) controls procedures before the award; notices are published on the ARMP portal (marche.armp-rdc.cd). SangoBids collects notices through the World Bank Procurement Notices, extracts every detail with AI and sends you targeted alerts.

The tender dossier sets the exact list of documents. The procedures manual lists the causes of non-compliance of a bid: a bid not signed by the authorised representative, missing beneficial-owner information, no bid guarantee provided, a missing price or an uncompleted price schedule, administrative conditions not met on tax, social contributions and the regulation fee. Requirements vary with the type and value of the contract.

Public procurement in DR Congo is governed by Law no. 10/010 of 27 April 2010 on public procurement, supplemented by the procedures manual (decree no. 23/12 of 3 March 2023). The ARMP regulates the system and publishes notices on its portal; the DGCMP controls procedures before the award. SangoBids automatically aggregates donor-financed contracts through the World Bank; the portal is not collected yet.

Set your preferences (sectors, provinces, keywords) in your profile. As soon as a new tender matches your criteria, you receive an alert by email or iPhone notification, as you choose. Email and iPhone alerts are included from the Free plan as a weekly digest; the weekly alert is free; with Business and Pro you can switch on daily or instant alerts.

Yes! The SangoBids app is available for free on the Apple App Store (iPhone and iPad) and on Google Play (Android). It offers push notifications for tenders, offline reading, the Go/No-Go view and every feature of the web platform.

Yes, SangoBids is the public procurement platform for French-speaking Africa. Besides DR Congo, we cover Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Benin. You can switch countries with the country selector.

SangoBids offers three plans. Free: Every tender in your country; A weekly alert on the tenders in your sectors; Up to 3 tenders tracked, with a reminder before each deadline; A file for each tracked tender, and one technical proposal free to try: a first draft written for you, a review, and the corrections you choose to keep; The Go/No-Go view on the tenders you track, and on one of your choice each month; Your company in the directory, visible to buyers and partners; My documents, kept: your company documents in one place, and a warning before each one expires. Business (5,000 FCFA/month): A Go/No-Go view for your company on every tender: go, review or skip, from your profile, your documents and your sectors, with the reasons; Who won each awarded contract, and for how much when the amount is published; Market overview on every tender: frequent winners, level of competition and median awarded amount, wherever comparable contracts are published; Every buyer on their own page, and up to 10 buyers followed: an alert as soon as they publish; Up to 10 tenders tracked, with a reminder before each deadline; 3 technical proposals a month: a first draft written for you from the notice and its documents, a review that says what to fix, and the rewrites you choose to keep; My documents: up to 20 documents instead of 5, their dates read for you and each document checked as you add it, as on Free; Alerts every day if you want them, switched on in your settings. Pro (10,000 FCFA/month), on top of the Business plan: My documents, ready to submit: your file checked against the tender before you submit, your administrative letters pre-filled (submission letter, sworn statement), up to 50 documents and earlier warnings before expiry (45, 30, 15 and 7 days); 10 technical proposals a month, from first draft to review, to answer more tenders; Each buyer's award history: who wins with them, and for how much; The price range of comparable contracts already awarded, wherever enough amounts are published; Your competitors followed: an alert as soon as a company you follow wins a contract; Up to 30 introductions a day to partners, and your availability shown on the tenders in your sectors; Unlimited tracked tenders and followed buyers, with a weekly summary by email; Alerts the moment a tender is published if you want them, switched on in your settings. Pay by bank card or Mobile Money on the web, or by in-app purchase in the mobile app.

The notices we collect come mainly from the World Bank Procurement Notices for DR Congo (donor-financed contracts). The ARMP-RDC portal is not collected yet. Our robots collect these notices automatically and extract every detail with AI.