Unlock a world of opportunities
with school tenders
We cover all your tendering needs from A to Z
Catering
Security
Uniform
Landscaping
Solar
Cleaning
Buses
Textbooks
Printing services
What is it we actually do
We’re a UK-based company supporting international schools across Africa and the Middle East in every step of the supplier selection process. From designing tender documents to analysing supplier responses and preparing easy-to-understand comparisons of supplier bids, we help schools find the best suppliers to meet their unique needs—stress-free.
This is how you benefit by working with us
Ensure Accountability
We provide a thorough audit trail and clear documentation of decision-making, ensuring transparency and accountability for your governing body.
Improve Supplier Quality
We help you identify top-tier suppliers, ensuring that you receive the highest quality products and services that meet your school's specific needs.
Maximise Value
By engaging multiple suppliers and fostering competition, we secure the best prices and terms, ensuring you get the most advantageous offers.
Save Time
We handle the heavy lifting and facilitate the tender process from start to finish, letting you focus on what matters most.
Your tendering experience with us
At SchoolAdvisor, we’re transforming school procurement with innovative tools and processes designed just for schools.
Always in Control
Track tender status, approve documentation, and shortlist suppliers with ease on cloud based app the Hive. Plus, chat with your dedicated tender representative anytime.
In-Depth Supplier Insights
Our robust evaluation process reveals every detail of prospective suppliers, ensuring you get a complete picture before making a decision.
Fact-Based Evaluation
We eliminate emotional bias, enabling fact-based decisions with supplier report cards provided to you at each evaluation gate
Best of All
It’s free! To get the process started, you pay a deposit, which will be refunded as soon as you have appointed a supplier.
Always in Control
Track tender status, approve documentation, and shortlist suppliers with ease on cloud based app the Hive. Plus, chat with your dedicated tender representative anytime.
In-Depth Supplier Insights
Our robust evaluation process reveals every detail of prospective suppliers, ensuring you get a complete picture before making a decision.
Fact-Based Evaluations
We eliminate emotional bias, enabling fact-based decisions with supplier report cards provided to you at each evaluation gate
Best of All
It's free! To get the process started, you pay a deposit, which will be refunded as soon as you have appointed a supplier.
Some of the recent schools we have worked with
Rustenburg Girls’ High School streamlines their supplier selection with SchoolAdvisor
Craig Leith, the campus manager at Rustenburg Girls’ High School, has successfully used SchoolAdvisor for the tender process not just once, but twice. This time, it helped them find the perfect supplier for their hard acrylic sports court.
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What value did you achieve through the tender for your school?
The biggest value we achieved through SchoolAdvisor’s tender process was saving time and resources. Instead of having to source, onboard, and manage suppliers ourselves, we were able to focus on other priorities. The process of receiving and evaluating proposals was streamlined, making it much easier for us to make decisions.
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How did the tender process provide you with transparency and control?
The transparency from SchoolAdvisor was excellent. They communicated clearly throughout the entire process, always making sure they understood our requirements and kept us informed at every stage.
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What has your experience been like working with the SchoolAdvisor team?
The team at SchoolAdvisor was amazing—friendly, reliable, and always available when we needed them. I never had to push for an answer, and they always followed through on their commitments, which made working with them a great experience.
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Did the tender process make life easier for you, and if so, how?
The process made life 100% easier for us. SchoolAdvisor took the pain out of the tender process by handling all the paperwork and simplifying the evaluation of proposals, which allowed us to focus on what really mattered.
Bryneven found the right supplier for their uniforms
Karina Jardim, a member of the Governing Body at Bryneven Primary School, Johannesburg, used SchoolAdvisor to find a uniform supplier who offered the best price and quality for the school’s 600 students.
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What value did you achieve through the tender for your school?
We were able to provide our parents with two established school uniform suppliers with
more than 10 years’ experience in the industry providing quality and affordable school clothes for all.
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How did the tender process provide you with transparency and control?
SchoolAdvisor enabled our school to run an unbiased process. As a school, we set the guiding principles and criteria that contributed towards a fair process for the school and the service providers.
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What has your experience been like working with the SchoolAdvisor team?
It was great working with the SchoolAdvisor team, they are true professionals that provided guidance & support throughout the process the process. I would recommend utilising their services for all tender processes to drive consistency.
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Did the tender process make life easier for you, and if so, how?
SchoolAdvisor did all the heavy lifting in finding the right suppliers to tender for our process & managing the initial screening process for the school. They supported and guided the tender process from start to finish allowing the school to spend time on reviewing and selecting the right service providers for our parents.
