SA Start-Up Tenderpoint Aims To Be A Catalyst In Creating A United Construction Industry
SA Start-Up Tenderpoint Aims To Be A Catalyst In Creating A United Construction Industry. Tenderpoint is a platform that was developed to be a catalyst to creating a united construction industry, harnessing opportunity and skills share, a product of employment creation and effectively result to thriving communities.
This mission and vision keeps the company developing a simple and effective solution that fits perfectly in its client’s business lifecycle, whether at the office or on a construction site. Tenderpoint trusts that by utilising to its platform its clients do not only benefit from cost efficient services but they inversely ensure someone somewhere is empowered.
The company said that according to the CIDB (Construction Industry Development Board) slightly over 80% of contractors in South Africa are emerging contractors that battle to source opportunities that enable them to be employers and participants in the eradication of unemployment in the country.
The other imperative factor that faces the industry is a lack of information share that not only empowers contractors but ensures effective service delivery. A platform for the industry to share information ensures a healthy ecosystem that unites and drives the industry to greater heights.
Asa Walesa Mazomba is a Construction Industry Professional and the founder of TenderPoint South Africa. His interest for the industry began at Port Rex Technical School in East London, where he was exposed to Interior Architecture. However, it was his numerical abilities that led to his decision to study Quantity Surveying at Nelson Mandela Municipality University (now Nelson Mandela University).
After a very brief stint working for a construction consultancy, Mazomba’s passion led him to start building his own company in 2014, after being aware of which gaps existed in the ecosystem. Coupled with his love of helping people and technology, he came up with the idea of TenderPoint, a construction procurement platform that assists emerging contractors in being compliant and run projects efficiently and have assisted thousands of contractors and have worked with organisations such as the NMU Infrastructure Department, CIDB, The Urban Housing Fund (TUHF), The Housing Development Agency (HDA), COEGA and various government departments.
