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PRAZ supplier registration is what lets a company bid for Zimbabwean public tenders, and our fee for it is US$150. PRAZ's own annual fee is paid to PRAZ at cost on top: a fee schedule published by a Harare consultancy puts local registration at US$50 to US$75 a year per category and foreign bidders at US$850, and we confirm the figure with PRAZ before you pay. The government vendor number is a separate item from a separate office: the Ministry of Finance allocates it, and government needs it before it can pay a supplier. Our fee for it is US$400, quoted once your company has a Zimbabwe bank account, because Treasury asks for a company bank statement. Bought with Trade Ready, PRAZ supplier registration comes inside the Government Supplier bundle at US$950.
Last verified 10 September 2026. Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration.
You pay in full when you instruct the job, in one payment rather than in stages. Our fee and the government fee are separate numbers on the quote, and government fees are passed through at cost. Your quotation arrives by email. Reply to it and we confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. If we cannot confirm a timeline in writing, anything you have paid comes back in full.
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe charges suppliers an annual registration fee per category. Under the fee structure that took effect in January 2026, a locally registered small or medium enterprise pays in the region of US$50 to US$75 per category per year. A foreign bidder pays US$850 a year.
If you intend to sell to the Zimbabwean government, that gap is the whole argument, and it does not care what passport you hold. Bidding through a company registered where you live puts you in the foreign band every single year. Bidding through a Zimbabwean company you own, wherever you own it from, puts you in the local band, and the difference pays for the registration many times over in the first year.
These figures come from a secondary source. The authority does not publish a fee page of its own, so we treat the numbers as indicative and confirm the fee applying to your categories before you pay anything.
| Registering as | Annual PRAZ fee |
|---|---|
| Locally registered small or medium enterprise | US$50 to US$75 per category |
| Foreign bidder | US$850 |
PRAZ supplier registration registers your company as a supplier with the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe. It is what puts your company on the supplier register and lets it bid for public tenders. Our fee is US$150, and PRAZ's own annual category fee, in the table above, is a separate number paid to PRAZ at cost on top.
The government vendor number is a different registration with a different office. It is allocated by the Ministry of Finance through its Public Finance Management System unit, not by PRAZ, and it is what government needs before it can pay a supplier. A company that wins a tender without one has work it cannot invoice government for. Our fee for it is US$400.
Treasury will not allocate a vendor number to a company that is not banked, which is why it is quoted after everything else. Government vendor number (Ministry of Finance): US$400, quoted once your company has a Zimbabwe bank account, because Treasury needs a company bank statement, proof of residence for two directors and original documents delivered in Harare. Most clients take the vendor number once they have won government work and need to be paid, since government cannot pay a supplier without one. It is never part of an estimate total, and it is not inside the Government Supplier bundle. Treasury's processing fee is included in the US$400, whichever processing route applies, and is not charged on top. Treasury processes a government vendor number in 2 or 7 working days, depending on the route, counted from the day the complete application is lodged.
Where you ask for PRAZ, or tell us you intend to bid for tenders, your estimate carries PRAZ supplier registration in its total and shows the vendor number beside it as a note with its price, outside the total.
| Item | Our fee | When we charge it |
|---|---|---|
| PRAZ supplier registration, for bidding | US$150 | In full, when you instruct us |
| Government vendor number (Ministry of Finance), for getting paid | US$400 | Quoted once your company is banked |
The Government Supplier bundle is Trade Ready plus PRAZ supplier registration. Bought separately US$1,100. Together US$950, a US$150 saving. Bought with Trade Ready, the Government Supplier bundle price of US$950 applies, so PRAZ supplier registration costs US$100 instead of US$150.
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development publishes its requirements for vendor number allocation through the Public Finance Management System. The application is a letter from one of the company's directors, on the company's letterhead, giving the registered name, the physical and postal addresses, the company's bank, branch and account number, and a contact person. It is supported by:
Source: Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Requirements for Vendor Number Allocation, published on pfms.gov.zw and read 14 September 2026.
The PRAZ fee is charged per category, so a supplier registered in four categories pays four times the annual fee. It is tempting to register broadly and see what comes up. It is usually cheaper to register in the categories you can actually deliver, win something, and add categories from revenue.
We will tell you when a category you have asked for looks like money you are unlikely to earn back.
Our fees in Zimbabwe, one per item:
PRAZ charges US$50 to US$75 per category per year for a locally registered SME and US$850 a year for a foreign bidder. Paid to PRAZ at cost, on top of our fee. Treasury's processing fee is included in the US$400, whichever processing route applies, and is not charged on top. Our fees and the government fee are always shown as separate numbers.
Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration.
You pay in full when you instruct the job, in one payment rather than in stages. Our fee and the government fee are separate numbers on the quote, and government fees are passed through at cost. Your quotation arrives by email. Reply to it and we confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. If we cannot confirm a timeline in writing, anything you have paid comes back in full. Prices were last verified on 10 September 2026. The full price list is at ZimCompany pricing.
Our fee for PRAZ supplier registration is US$150. Bought with Trade Ready, the Government Supplier bundle price of US$950 applies, so PRAZ supplier registration costs US$100 instead of US$150. PRAZ's own annual category fee is separate and paid to PRAZ at cost: a fee schedule published by a Harare consultancy puts a locally registered small or medium enterprise at US$50 to US$75 per category per year and a foreign bidder at US$850 a year. PRAZ publishes no fee page of its own, so we confirm the figure with PRAZ before you pay it. The government vendor number is a separate item: quoted once your company has a Zimbabwe bank account, because Treasury needs a company bank statement, proof of residence for two directors and original documents delivered in Harare, at US$400.
PRAZ registration is for bidding: it puts your company on the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe's supplier register so it can tender. The government vendor number is for getting paid: the Ministry of Finance allocates it, not PRAZ, and government needs it before it can pay a supplier. They are different offices with different requirements, so they are two items. Government vendor number (Ministry of Finance): US$400, quoted once your company has a Zimbabwe bank account, because Treasury needs a company bank statement, proof of residence for two directors and original documents delivered in Harare. Most clients take the vendor number once they have won government work and need to be paid, since government cannot pay a supplier without one.
Yes. Supplier registration on the electronic procurement portal is open, and we file PRAZ supplier registration when you instruct us, at the price above, with PRAZ's own annual category fee paid to PRAZ at cost on top.
Because it cannot be started on the day you instruct us. Treasury asks for a company bank statement and proof of residence for two directors before it allocates a vendor number, and wants the original documents delivered in Harare. A company that has only just been registered has no bank account yet, so we quote the vendor number, at US$400, once yours is open rather than taking payment for a filing that cannot be lodged.
Treasury processes a government vendor number in 2 or 7 working days, depending on the route, counted from the day the complete application is lodged. That is Treasury's own processing time, not our filing partner's five working days, because the Ministry of Finance allocates the number. Its requirements document says applications are taken on Mondays and Thursdays only, and the clock starts once the complete application, with the originals, is lodged at Mukwati Building. Source: Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Requirements for Vendor Number Allocation, pfms.gov.zw, read 14 September 2026.
You can bid as a foreign supplier, but you pay the foreign annual fee and you carry a heavier documentation burden. Owning a Zimbabwean company is what puts you in the local band.
Assume yes. Public procurement asks for a current tax clearance, which is why we bundle the clearance with tender-focused registrations.
Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration. The five working days are counted from the day we hold everything we asked you for, not from the day you paid, because an incomplete file cannot be lodged. Where you are buying more than one item we do not publish a total, because the dependent ones run one after another. Your quotation arrives by email. Reply to it and we confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. If we cannot confirm a timeline in writing, anything you have paid comes back in full.
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