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If you want to tender on any government contract it is compulsory to register on the Central Supplier Database or CSD. In April 2016 National Treasury consolidated all government supplier information into a single database with the intention to establish a single database for up-to-date verified supplier information to be used by all government departments.
I mentioned verified information because all of the data you provide is checked and verified with the respective government departments as well as your bank. Only once all of your data has been verified with CIPC, Home Affairs, SARS and your bank, will you obtain your CSD number. To date over 800k suppliers have been verified and therefore successfully registered on the CSD as government suppliers.
So how do I register for CSD? The process is a two stage online registration. The first stage can by law only be done by you, the primary user and not a representative. To get started you need to log on the CSD website www.csd.gov.za and register a new account.
For this you will need a mobile phone and current email address as you will receive a OTP pin on your mobile phone and a verification email for you to click on to authenticate your email address. The OTP is only active for a window period of 5 minutes, so you need to ensure that you have your phone with you when you register. It is a good idea to plan your password beforehand to give you time to consider a secure password which is easy to remember. The password MUST consist of at least 8 characters and include at least one of each of the following; capital and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. For example 123e@syCSD
There are also a number of security questions which you will need to select such as; Where were you born, where was your first job etc. This is added security for telephonic verification of you as the primary user if you need to change your password or have forgotten it and you contact the call centre.
Once your account has been created you can log on and start with stage two which is to complete all of the supporting information such as contact addresses, bank account details, tax numbers, company ownership, industry sectors and BEE information. There is a lot of information which is pretty complicated to navigate through but once you have completed the data in a specific section it is saved.
As you complete the specific segments of the registration it is automatically verified with the respective government department. This part happens quite quickly as all government departments share information. We have found that the bank account verification is usually the most tricky which makes sense, as the banks servers are not linked to the government database for obvious reasons. Therefore the bank account verification may take a few days.
Once all of the information has been captured and verified you will receive a CSD number which will look something like this: EG MAAA0000005
Many of our clients have found this process very overwhelming which has prompted us to offer an assisted registration service to help you get through this arduous process. Please feel free to contact us for more information regarding this service.
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