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1 Apr 2019

Industry Events: South Africa April & May 2019

by Sasha Anderson | posted in: Construction Events | 0

Industry Events: South Africa April & May 2019

Event:

Smart Procurement World WC

Date:

9 – 10 April 2019

Event Location:

GradWest, Cape Town, South Africa

Event Description:

6th annual Western Cape Smart Procurement World event brings together all SCM and procurement practitioners in the region. Alongside the conference is a showcase of leading solutions and products for the profession. Smart Procurement World is the ideal independent business-generating event! Part of the ultimate procurement and inbound supply chain conference and expo in Africa, the conference provides an opportunity for professional development and updates in supply chain management.

Contact Details:

Email: debbiet@smartprocurement.net

Event Details:

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Event:

Harare Indaba

Date:

10 April 2019

Event Location:

Country Club Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Event Description:

The Harare Indaba focuses on investing in the resources and mining sector in Zimbabwe and at this time of pending renewal and rejuvenation in Zimbabwe the event addresses the areas such as How will the Zimbabwe economy and more specifically, mining industry, renew itself, What is changing in the country and what will this mean for the mining sector, What will it mean for investors, Mining’s contribution towards regenerating the economy of Zimbabwe, and much more.

Contact Details:

Email: info@resources4africa.com

Event Details:

Website

Event:

African Utility Week

Date:

14 – 16 May 2019

Event Location:

CTICC (Cape Town International Convention Centre), Cape Town, South Africa

Event Description:

African Utility Week is an event promoting the development in African countries. The show is the one world assembly location, convention and trade exhibition for African vigour and water utility professionals and offers a distinct networking possibility for engineers, stakeholders and resolution vendors alike. This event shows products like discuss strategic and technical improvements in the utility power, water and gas sectors etc. in the Business Services, Power & Renewable Energy industries.

Contact Details:

Tel: +27 21 700 3564
Email: loudon.cito@spintelligent.com

Event Details:

Website
Registration

Event:

Facilities Management Expo

Date:

14 – 16 May 2019

Event Location:

Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa

Event Description:

The Facilities Management Expo is the trade expo for the Facilities Management industry: inspiration, education, innovation and it brings together all aspects of facilities management, providing a platform for knowledge exchange, relationship building, bringing exhibitors and visitors alike up-to-date with the latest trends, products, and legislation, face-to-face networking opportunities, and much more.

Contact Details:

Tel: +27 (0)10 003 3082
Email: zeldaj@specialised.com

Event Details:

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Registration

Event:

Securex South Africa 2019

Date:

14 – 16 May 2019

Event Location:

Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa

Event Description:

Visit Securex South Africa 2019, celebrating its 26th year in 2019, for everything you need to know about security. Encompassing fire protection as well as both physical and cybersecurity, Securex 2019 will once again run alongside A-OSH EXPO, Africa’s leading occupational safety and health trade exhibition.

It will also be co-located with a third expo for the very first time – Facilities Management Expo 2019, the show that brings together all aspects of facilities management.

Contact Details:

Tel: +27 (0)11 835 1565
Email: svens@specialised.com

Event Details:

Website
Registration

Event:

Power Gen Africa

Date:

14 – 16 May 2019

Event Location:

CTICC (Cape Town International Convention Centre), Cape Town, South Africa

Event Description:

Power Gen Africa brings together international business leaders and technical experts committed to POWERING UP A CONTINENT and features a comprehensive conference programme and extensive exhibit floor. The event spans all aspects of centralized and distributed power generation along with leading technologies in power transmission and distribution and focus on various aspects of power needs, resources, and issues facing the electricity generation industries.

Contact Details:

Tel: +44 (0)20 7384 8036
Email: exhibitpgaf@clarionevents.com

Event Details:

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Registration

Event:

Western Cape Property Development Forum

Date:

16 – 17 May 2019

Event Location:

Century City Conference Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Event Description:

The Western Cape Property Development Forum will cover areas like Learning from successfully completed developments, Highlighting potential development opportunities for local developers, Identifying practical solutions to alternative electricity sources.

Contact Details:

Tel: +27 21 914 2888
Email: registrar@sbs.co.za

Event Details:

Website
Registration

Event:

CIO Mining Africa Summit

Date:

22 May 2019

Event Location:

Summit Place, Pretoria, South Africa

Event Description:

CIO Mining Africa Summit is an event for digital and IT sector companies. The event is expected to attract over 200 participants from over 20 countries. The event aims at uniting Minsters from Africas most established and emerging mining economies with global mining executives, investors and service providers to meet, share ideas, connect and encourage greater partnerships & stakeholder engagement. The conference will cover areas like Digital Transformation in Workforce management in mining, Reinventing IT to respond and adapt to the industry economic downturn demands on the IT function, IT spending during a slump, Creating and Sustaining an industry leading position through Effective IT Governance.

Contact Details:

Tel: +44 (0) 7929 238 382
Email: darren.roach@energlobeltd.com

Event Details:

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About Sasha Anderson

Millennial Mom + wife living the hash-tag life. Remember: If You Fail - Fail Forward

28 Mar 2019

Directory Ranking: Tips That You Need to Know

by Sally Nell | posted in: General | 0

This won’t be a long read but I promise it will be worth your time 😉

As you are all aware we have an extensive directory that lists anyone from Painters to Civil Engineers and anyone in between, in other words – anyone that you will ever need in the construction, civil and mining industry…you’re welcome!

In amongst this vast array of professionals, vendors and contractors you get our Buyers.

Our Buyers are subscribed to our Leads 2 Quotes (L2Q) platform, aka The Pricing Platform. They use our directory to price their tender documents by sending out Request for Quotes (RfQ’s) and in turn, get to know and appoint sub-contractors for those specific contracts if and when they are awarded the contract.

On our directory, we also have our vendors who are active to receive the above referred to Request for Quotes (RfQ’s). You can be a non-paying Vendor or a paying Vendor (referred to as our Open Quotes Subscribers), both Vendor and Open Quotes subscribers will receive RfQ’s and will be able to price or decline online and view specifications or drawings should the contractor upload these.

The major benefit of being subscribed to Open Quotes is – that you will receive all award information for all Request for Quotes received! This gives you the opportunity to send your prices to the awarded contractor too! You will also be able to ensure that your directory entry is up to date to ensure that you receive the relevant Request for Quotes as well as ensuring that if anyone wanted to contact you that they could successfully.

So after some background information let’s move onto the tips on how you can improve your ranking on our directory. This just means that the better your company scores the higher it will rank in position on the list of companies (vendors or suppliers) our buyers see when they want to send out Request for Quotes (RfQ’s).

See tips below:

1) Just price the RfQ’s that you receive

When you receive an RFQ from a contractor please price it online or send it back via email and “reply all” on the email so we can get a copy and make sure that the positive response is entered into our system (the buyer can see this too).

2) Regularly Update the details on our database

Even if there is nothing to change just ensure that we know that your details are still correct so we can go update it or mark it as still correct and this will help rank you higher, try do this every 3 months or so – if you are an Open Quotes subscriber you can do this from a link on the Request for Quote email you receive:

3) Subscribe to Open Quotes and we can help you get into contact with our buyers

The more contact you make with the buyers, whether it be sending through your prices or sending them your company profile or specials you may be running the more your company name will come up and you are more likely to be remembered and this could lead to your company becoming a preferred supplier/vendor of theirs and ultimately end up with your company ranking higher.

If you have any questions or would be interested in subscribing or updating your details, please send us an email on Directory@L2B.co.za and I will be happy to assist you.

Happy Pricing

About Sally Nell

I joined Leads 2 Business in November 2011. I started in the Daily Tenders department and later moved to the Directory Department in May 2014.

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27 Mar 2019

How To: Create a New Bill Request

by Sasha Anderson | posted in: How To, The How to Series | 0

Create a New Bill Request. Send us your Bill of Quantities (BoQ) to be formatted and traded. We upload it electronically for you to send out RFQ’s to Vendors and Suppliers.

– here’s a quick video tutorial from “The How To Series”.

(Duration 2 min,39 sec)

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About Sasha Anderson

Millennial Mom + wife living the hash-tag life. Remember: If You Fail - Fail Forward

26 Mar 2019

Featured Company: S A Asia Cable (Pty) Ltd

by Pauline Rainbird | posted in: Featured Company | 0

Who’s who in your Industry? This week we are featuring S A Asia Cable (Pty) Ltd

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About Pauline Rainbird

I have been working at L2B since March 2011 and my current position is Deputy Head of Department - Africa. When I am not working I am either riding my bicycle or spending time with my dogs.

25 Mar 2019

Featured Project: Stimela Crossing

by Debbie Wessels | posted in: Featured Project | 0

Featured Project: Stimela Crossing

Description

Construction of the Stimela Crossing Shopping Mall, Barberton, Mpumalanga. The centre will be single level and semi enclosed with a gross lettable area of 11 878m² with external parking. The centre will have two anchor tenants and a wide range of national retailers.

Status	Region
Underway	Mpumalanga
Category	Value
Building	Unknown At This Stage
Industry	Timing
Retail	October 2018 to August 2019 (10 months)
Sector	Class
Private	Invited / Negotiated

If you are a valued Projects subscriber, you can find more details about this Project here
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About Debbie Wessels

I started at Leads 2 Business in April 2008 in the tenders Department and transferred to the Projects Department during the same year. I was appointed Head of Department for Projects from February 2011 to March 2022. April 2022 I started a new adventure as Content Regulator.

15 Mar 2019

Projects Infographic: KZN

by Marlaine Andersen | posted in: Infographic | 0

Projects Infographic: KZN
Get the inside scoop…

About Marlaine Andersen

Leads 2 Business Advertising Co-ordinator and Digital Designer

14 Mar 2019

Industry Events: Africa April & May 2019

by Sasha Anderson | posted in: Construction Events | 0

Event:

Meqasa Home & Property Fair

Date:

06 to 07 Apr 2019

Event Location:

Silver Star Tower, Accra, Ghana

Event Description:

“Amazing property deals you can’t miss!”
The meqasa Home & Property Fair offers property seekers the opportunity to meet with the nation’s top real estate developers, home loan specialists and home improvement vendors to help them find their dream homes, office space and real estate related products and services. There will be various opportunities for attendees to meet new people and identify those leads that are specifically relevant to their businesses.

Event Details:

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Event:

Nigeria Energy Forum

Date:

09 – 10 Apr 2019

Event Location:

Admiralty Conference Centre, Lagos, Nigeria

Event Description:

The Nigeria Energy Forum set to upscale the development of sustainable energy services for all through a capacity building, training and development programme for policymakers, business leaders, energy innovators, professional engineers, industry experts and academics in Nigeria and other African countries.

Contact Details:

Tel: +44 777 458 2543
Email: info@thenef.org

Event Details:

Website
Registration

Event:

East Africa Property Investment Summit

Date:

10 to 11 Apr 2019

Event Location:

Radisson Blu Hotel Nairobi Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya

Event Description:

The East Africa Property Investment Summit is a leading property event for the entire region’s real estate market. Driven by passionate professionals, fast-growing economies and exciting projects, the real estate sector provides potential and opportunity for the educated and savvy investor or developer.

Contact Details:

Tel: +27 (11) 250 2260
Email: info@apievents.com

Event Details:

Website
Registration

Event:

Kenya Homes Expo

Date:

11 to 14 Apr 2019

Event Location:

Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Event Description:

The Kenya Homes Expo is the region’s biggest homes show. Targeting the entire African region with a major focus on East & Central Africa, the Kenya Homes Expo is an experiential platform that creates a level ground for real estate players to converge with a ready market for land, homes, financial advice and general real estate information. We are the heartbeat of East & Central Africa, the authoritative voice of the real estate market. Exhibitors ranging from landowners, realtors, contractors, landscape artists, to interior design companies and insurers and bankers, we successfully deliver eye-opening and innovative shows for the real estate industry.

Contact Details:

Tel: +254(0)72 522 5650
Email: info@kenyahomesexpo.com

Event Details:

Website
Registration

Event:

BotsReal Property & Infrastructure Forum

Date:

09 May 2019

Event Location:

Peermont, Gaborone International Conference Centre (GICC), Gaborone, Botswana

Event Description:

BotsReal Property & Infrastructure Forum will facilitate the platform for both private and public investors, developers and industry professionals, to network, debate and examine issues and opportunities around the countries property & infrastructure sectors. Through API Events’ regional network, the event will also attract international companies and investors looking for opportunities in Botswana as well as potential partners, suppliers and service providers.

Contact Details:

Tel: +27 (0)11 250 2260
Email: registrations@apievents.com

Event Details:

Website
Registration

Event:

Mining Investment Conference & Exhibition Botswana

Date:

21 to 22 May 2019

Event Location:

Peermont, Gaborone International Conference Centre (GICC), Gaborone, Botswana

Event Description:

Mining Investment Conference & Exhibition Botswana is a strategic mining conference and exhibition for the leaders of the mining, quarrying and construction materials industries, bringing together attendees from countries.

Contact Details:

Tel: +65 6717 6016
Email: enquiry@spire-events.com

Event Details:

Website
Registration

Event:

Mining Investment West Africa

Date:

28 to 29 May 2019

Event Location:

Swiss Spirit Hotel & Suites Alisa Accra, Accra, Ghana

Event Description:

The Mining Investment West Africa is a strategic mining conference and exhibition for the leaders of the mining, quarrying and construction materials industries, bringing together attendees from countries. Ministers, mining companies, investors and service providers travel from all over Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and Middle East for two days of partnering, networking and business matching. Join us at an invaluable platform to seek new partnerships, new business and new opportunities.

Contact Details:

Tel: +65 6717 6016
Email: enquiry@spire-events.com

Event Details:

Website
Registration

About Sasha Anderson

Millennial Mom + wife living the hash-tag life. Remember: If You Fail - Fail Forward

13 Mar 2019

How To: Request a BoQ on a Tender

by Sasha Anderson | posted in: The How to Series | 2

Request the Bill of Quantities (BoQ) on a Tender of interest and find your service/product opportunities.
– here’s a quick video tutorial from “The How To Series”.

(Duration 1 min,30 sec)

About Sasha Anderson

Millennial Mom + wife living the hash-tag life. Remember: If You Fail - Fail Forward

12 Mar 2019

Simple Tips that will improve Vendor Responses

by Nadine Vermeulen | posted in: Construction Chat, General, How To | 0

As the main contractor, your daily schedule involves plenty of organizing, planning, and meticulous work. In a busy world with a busy schedule, it is very easy to lose track of time and lose your objective for the day, even if it is just slight details or information that you need to obtain.
When you tender on a project (or a few), the stressful work can get a bit much, but never fear, as Leads 2 Business is here with a solution.

By using our L2Q Pricing Platform, life has become a little simpler in obtaining prices from various Vendors in just a few clicks.

Once a Bill of Quantities has been added onto your pricing platform profile, you can send Request for Quotes (RFQ’s) to various vendors to obtain prices for specific trades that you require.

Our dedicated Control List team will meticulously follow up on these RFQ’s to assist in obtaining the necessary responses.

By using the following tips, the responses you receive from vendors could be improved:

Provide vendors with drawings and/or specifications of the project.
Should a vendor contact you with regards to the quotation, assist as much as you are able to at the time.
Confirm that you are sending the RFQ to the correct vendor i.e read the description of the company, which will give you the necessary insight on their scope of works.
Keep an open line of communication, as good communication will assist with dealing with the same vendor in the future. For example; if the tender has been awarded, notify the vendor if you have been awarded the tender or not. This will let the vendor know that he/she is not pricing in vain.
Give the vendors sufficient time to respond to the RFQ (at least 5 – 7 days).

Hopefully, using these few tips, it will assist in an even smoother process to obtain your responses from various vendors, without being bombarded by unnecessary responses that you don’t need.

Feel free to give us a call if you require more information about our Leads 2 Quotes package on +27(0)860 836 337.

About Nadine Vermeulen

I started working at Leads 2 Business in October 2014 in the Leads 2 Quotes Department. I managed all the Daily Tender Bill Requests and followed up on BoQ's for our Daily Tender Subscribers. In 2017, I was promoted to L2Q Assistant and now work with Bill of Quantities for Contractors. 🙂

11 Mar 2019

Featured Tender: Completion Contract: Masterplan for the conversion of carpenter workshop into offices and face lifting of main building

by Claire Donaldson | posted in: Featured Tender | 2

Featured Tender: Completion Contract: Masterplan for the conversion of carpenter workshop into offices and face lifting of main building

Contract Number:

ZNTU03609W – Department of Public Works

Description:

Bids are invited for: Completion Contract: Masterplan for the conversion of carpenter workshop into offices and face lifting of main building at Department of Public Works, Vryheid

Category	Industry
Building	Renovations, Institutional
Region	Site Inspection
Mtubatuba	2019-03-13 11:00 AM
Closing Date	Contract Period
01 April 2019 at 11:00	No details.

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About Claire Donaldson

I started working at Leads 2 Business in February 2005, and have served as Head of Department of Daily Tenders from 2007 until the present. I oversee both the Daily Tenders South Africa and Africa Departments.

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