Frequently asked questions

SangoBids is a public tender monitoring platform for Guinea. It automatically queries TELEMO, the national portal, and the World Bank Procurement Notices API (which covers public contracts financed or co-financed in Guinea). Every notice is analysed and then delivered 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 region preferences.

SangoBids covers all 8 regions of Guinea: Conakry, Boké, Faranah, Kankan, Kindia, Labé, Mamou and Nzérékoré.

The ARMP (Autorité de régulation des marchés publics) is the regulator: its Dispute Settlement Committee hears appeals after the prior appeal to the buyer, it can sanction companies and keeps the blacklist. The DGCMP (Direction générale du contrôle des marchés publics) controls how contracts are awarded. Guinean notices are published on several official sites: TELEMO (telemo.gov.gn), the national portal now being rolled out, the DGCMP (dgcmp.gov.gn) and the ARMP (armpguinee.org), whose website also publishes minutes, procurement plans and its decisions. SangoBids collects TELEMO, the JAO tender journal (jaoguinee.com) and the World Bank Procurement Notices API, which covers Guinean contracts that are financed or co-financed.

The tender documents state the documents required. A single envelope contains the application, the bid bond (1% to 2% of the estimated contract value, except for intellectual services) and, separately, the technical and financial offers, with the signed deed of commitment. Valid tax and social security certificates are required only from the successful bidder, within 15 days of notification. All documents are in French.

Since order A/2026/190, a tender is mandatory from 2 billion GNF for State works, 1.5 billion for State supplies and ordinary services and 1 billion for intellectual services. Regional services and communes have their own thresholds. Below that, a request for quotation is mandatory from 50 million GNF.

Each contracting authority runs its own procurement: its PRMP (person responsible for public contracts), its procurement unit and its procurement committee receive and open the bids, evaluate the offers and sign the contract. The DGCMP (General Directorate for Public Procurement Control), attached to the Ministry of Finance, carries out prior and ex-post control: it reviews the tender documents before launch, gives the no-objection opinion on the evaluation report and endorses contracts. It was called the National Directorate for Public Procurement Control (DNCMP) in the 2018 to 2021 texts; some guides still use the acronym DNMP. The Minister of Economy, Finance and Budget approves contracts or delegates this power.

Set your preferences (sectors, regions, keywords) in your profile. As soon as a new tender matches your criteria, you receive an alert by email or iPhone notification. 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 covers every public procurement sector in Guinea, including tenders related to mining (bauxite, gold, iron, diamonds). Goods, services and works contracts linked to public mining operations are included in our monitoring.

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.

Notices come from TELEMO, the national public procurement portal, the JAO journal (jaoguinee.com) and the World Bank Procurement Notices API. Our robots collect them automatically.