Welcome to the official GitHub organization for Bread Corporation!
Our name comes from a simple idea: bread is a staple in most people's lives. As BreadCorp, we aim to provide staple solutions—robust, reliable, and essential tools that organizations can depend on every day.
We're thrilled to present our flagship project, Tender Tool, a complete, automated system for the discovery, classification, and analysis of public sector tenders in South Africa 🇿🇦.
Experience Tender Tool right now:
🚀 Live Application - Try our production system!
📊 Explore 500+ tenders from across South Africa's public sector
🔍 Search & filter with our AI-powered classification system
Tender Tool is your automated assistant that cuts through the noise of public procurement. It is a fully serverless, event-driven application that:
- 🕵️♂️ Discovers tenders from multiple government and state-owned entity (SOE) websites
- 🤖 Summarizes complex tender documents using Generative AI (Amazon Bedrock)
- 🏷️ Tags & Categorizes tenders automatically for easy filtering
- 🧹 De-duplicates and cleanses data to ensure high quality
- ☁️ Serves this data through a secure, scalable web API
- 🔍 Enables advanced search with our OpenSearch-powered discovery engine
No more manual hunting across dozens of websites. Tender Tool does the hard work, allowing businesses to focus on winning contracts. 💼
- 538 tenders actively tracked
- 5 major sources continuously monitored (eTenders, Eskom, SANRAL, SARS, Transnet)
- 100% serverless architecture with zero server maintenance
- AI-powered summaries and categorization
- Real-time data processing pipeline
Public tender information is crucial but notoriously difficult to manage. It's scattered across countless portals, inconsistent in format, and hard to track. Our goal was to build a system that:
- ✅ Centralizes tender information into one clean source
- ✅ Enables better and faster decision-making for suppliers
- ✅ Creates a foundation for transparency and data analysis on public spending
- ✅ Reduces the time-to-discovery from hours to seconds
Before Tender Tool: Manual checking of 20+ websites daily
After Tender Tool: One unified dashboard with intelligent alerts
The entire Tender Tool system is built on a 100% serverless, event-driven architecture using Amazon Web Services (AWS). This design makes it highly scalable, resilient, and extremely cost-effective.
Our system operates as a sophisticated data processing pipeline:
- 🕷️ Scrapers & Ingestion: Specialized AWS Lambda functions collect raw tender data from multiple sources
- 🔄 Event-Driven Pipeline: Data flows through Amazon SQS FIFO queues for guaranteed ordering and reliability
- ⚡ Parallel Processing: Independent Lambda functions handle different aspects simultaneously:
- 📝 Database Writes: Storing tender info in AWS RDS
- 🤖 AI Summarization: Generating concise summaries with Amazon Bedrock
- 🏷️ AI Tagging: Intelligent classification and tagging
- 🧹 De-duplication: Advanced algorithms to identify and merge duplicates
- 🌐 API & Web: High-performance .NET 8 API on AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway
- 🔍 Advanced Search: Amazon OpenSearch cluster for lightning-fast full-text search
- 🛡️ Security & Auth: AWS Cognito for secure user management
- 📊 Monitoring & Logging: Comprehensive observability with AWS CloudWatch
This diagram visualizes the complete flow from data ingestion to user-facing applications:
Built with modern, enterprise-grade technologies:
| Category | Technology | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| ☁️ Cloud Provider | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Complete cloud infrastructure |
| ⚡ Compute | AWS Lambda (.NET 8 + Python) | Serverless function execution |
| 🗄️ Database | AWS RDS (MS SQL Server) | Relational data storage |
| 🌐 API Layer | Amazon API Gateway (REST) | Secure API management |
| 📨 Messaging | Amazon SQS (FIFO Queues) | Reliable message processing |
| 🔍 Search Engine | Amazon OpenSearch | Advanced search capabilities |
| 🤖 AI/ML | Amazon Bedrock (Claude 3 Sonnet) | AI summarization & tagging |
| 🔐 Authentication | AWS Cognito | User management & security |
| 📦 Storage | AWS S3 | File storage & static hosting |
| 📊 Monitoring | AWS CloudWatch | Logging, metrics & alarms |
| 🚀 Frontend Hosting | AWS Amplify | React app deployment & CI/CD |
| 🔄 CI/CD | GitHub Actions | Automated deployment pipelines |
| 🏗️ Backend Framework | .NET 8 | High-performance API development |
| 🎨 Frontend Framework | React + TypeScript | Modern web application |
- 🔍 Intelligent Search: Find relevant tenders across all sources instantly
- 📊 Smart Filtering: Filter by category, region, value, and closing dates
- 🤖 AI Summaries: Get the key points without reading lengthy documents
- 📱 Mobile-Friendly: Access from any device, anywhere
- 🔔 Real-Time Updates: Stay informed about new opportunities
- 📖 Comprehensive APIs: RESTful endpoints with full documentation
- 🔒 Secure Authentication: OAuth 2.0 / JWT token-based security
- ⚡ High Performance: Sub-second response times with caching
- 📈 Scalable Architecture: Handles traffic spikes automatically
- 🛠️ Developer-Friendly: Clear error messages and extensive logging
This project represents the culmination of our final-year team's journey. Across our 16 repositories, we've built a complex, production-ready system from scratch, mastering everything from cloud architecture and DevOps to AI integration and data engineering.
- 💬 Conversational AI: Amazon Lex integration for natural language queries
"Find me all IT tenders in Gauteng closing this month"
- ⚡ Performance Optimization: Amazon ElastiCache for millisecond response times
- 📊 Advanced Analytics: Predictive insights and market trend analysis
This project is the product of hundreds of hours of work, commits, and collaboration across our 16 repositories. Here is a look at our flagship repository, the frontend interface for Tender Tool.
We are Bread Corporation - a passionate team of final-year Computer Science students who transformed an idea into a production-ready system that's changing how businesses discover public sector opportunities.
| Team Member | Primary Role | Secondary Role | Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashish Deepak Dannyeswar | 🎯 Project Manager | 🏗️ Solutions Architect | Strategic planning & system design |
| Sashveer Lakhan Ramjathan | ⚙️ DevOps Engineer | ☁️ Cloud Architect | AWS infrastructure & automation |
| Blaise Mikka de Gier | 🔧 Lead Backend Developer | 🤖 AI/ML Specialist | API development & machine learning |
| Kayden Ryan Reddy | 📱 Android Developer | 🔐 Auth Specialist | Mobile development & security |
| Fathima Bibi Shariff | 🎨 Frontend Developer | 🎯 UI/UX Designer | React development & user experience |
| Atiyyah Moola | 🗄️ Database Administrator | 📊 Data Analyst | Data architecture & optimization |
| Azrah Abdul Habib | 📋 Research Coordinator | 📈 Business Analyst | Market research & requirements |
Each team member contributed unique skills that made this ambitious project possible.
While this is primarily a showcase of our capstone project, we welcome:
- 🐛 Bug reports and feature suggestions
- 📖 Documentation improvements
- 🤝 Collaboration opportunities
- 💼 Professional networking
This project and all its associated code are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
Special thanks to our academic supervisors, AWS for educational credits, and the open-source community that made this project possible.
Built with ☕, 🍞, and determination by Bread Corporation 🦆❤️💻
Serving up staple solutions, one line of code at a time
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