National Treasury has established the Central Supplier Database on behalf of all departments, constitutional institutions and public entities listed in Schedule 2 and 3 of the Act.

From 01 April 2016 organs of state were required to only do business with suppliers that are duly registered on the CSD.

The CSD was implemented with the intent to:

• be the single source of all supplier information for all organs of state;
• reduce the paper-based exchange of compliance documents;
• eliminate multiple registrations with different organs of state; 
• reduce the cost for both business and government by enabling electronic registration and verification processes; and
• reduce audit queries on suppliers’ compliance information.