Whether they sit in revenue growth or in productivity efficiencies.
Built by buyers, running live competitive events since 2016.
Reverse and forward e-auctions. RFP, RFQ and RFI. Line-item BOQ comparison. Vendor self-service portal. Compliance blocking. Live group chat. Auto-extend. Scoring, adjudication and a full audit trail.
We have already run your categories, so nothing starts from scratch.
Across retail, wholesale, security, ports, rail and insurance.
1,020 named people. We have never charged one of them a cent to bid.
R347.5 million saved, at an average of 14.8% per auction.
Comex Procurement has proven to be a capable, responsive, and innovative partner. We have full confidence in their ability to deliver value-driven procurement technology solutions and are pleased to recommend them for similar initiatives.Transnet · Group Procurement
The level of service to date has been excellent.Pick n Pay · October 2023
Confirmed in writing that the platform cut certain costs by over 12% across eleven events.
Fidelity Services Group · May 2021Full letters available on request.
72 of these 95 categories have run on the platform. Search yours.
86.5% of the savings came from just these ten.
2016 to 2026. Fuel and fleet includes rebate improvement and contract value as well as unit price. Recyclables is revenue recovered on forward sales, not cost removed.
R28.3 million of increased revenue on recyclables and materials.
Real completed events. Store waste is a forward sale, so the client earned rather than saved.
Eight lines of store and office hardware, bid live by national IT suppliers.
Shortlisted vendors demonstrated their systems live to the finance team before scoring.
A tender for cloud hosting and services, open to the major cloud providers.
Recyclable material sold to the highest bidder, so the client earns rather than spends.
All run for our clients in 2026.
Fuel runs on its own marketplace, FuelBid. Suppliers bid your rebate up in a live auction, and the majors bid alongside the independents.
Logos belong to their owners and are shown to identify them only. FuelBid is independent and not connected to any of them. Which suppliers bid depends on where your sites are.
Each buyer gets a team of AI Operatives that do the work around a tender. The buyer approves every step. The aim is for one buyer to do the work of a whole procurement team, with ten years of sourcing experience built into the tools.
Reads each vendor submission as it arrives and flags missing or expired documents.
Flags clauses that put the client at risk and suggests protective wording.
Drafts the RFQ pack, vendor briefs and award letters from the buyer's own files.
Tracks every vendor through NDAs, briefings and submissions.
Builds the timeline from emails and meetings, and reminds each person as dates approach.
Reads each month's fuel card file and shows where the fleet paid more than it needed to.
Most of these run as working prototypes today. Client file intake and fuel card analysis are the first two modules being built into the platform. Client data stays in South Africa. A Comex project manager is available on request for setup, advice or a full event.
You were given a figure in January and it is August. We build the pipeline that adds up to it, category by category, and run the events.
We benchmark one category properly and give you an answer either way, with the working attached.
Twelve years, good service, and no one has checked the price since. We test it without touching the relationship. Often the incumbent wins, and cheaper.
We run the ones your team cannot get to. Priced by the event, not by the month.
Fifteen years buying, at SAFEX, Makro, Masscash, Massmart and on global sourcing for Walmart. Then ten years building the thing he wished he had while he was buying. He runs the events, decodes the data, and writes the reports clients take to their boards.
owen@comex.co.zaTwenty nine years at Makro, ending as General Merchandise Director, with twelve consecutive years of double digit growth. He built the private label division behind Campmaster, Gardenmaster, Woodland, 1stValue, Mastercraft and American Cola. Then six years running General Merchandise at Pick n Pay.
His teams used e-auctions at Massmart and Comex at Pick n Pay, with great results.
dk@comex.co.zaName a single line of spend. We will look at it against the 288 events we have already run, tell you honestly whether an auction would find anything, and say so if it would not.