Construction Industry Development Board
The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) is South Africa’s statutory construction-industry regulator, established under the Construction Industry Development Board Act 38 of 2000. It maintains the national Register of Contractors and Register of Projects, promotes a uniform public-procurement system, and is mandated to develop the industry — including small and emerging contractors. It regulates all construction outside housing (housing falling under the NHBRC).
Construction Industry Development Board [regulates] South Africa
On payment, the CIDB is the body that has repeatedly tried, and failed, to give South Africa a prompt-payment regime. It drafted CIDB Prompt Payment Regulations — amendments to the CIDB Act regulations that would impose 30-day payment, void Pay-When-Paid Clauses, and create a mandatory adjudication process — but these have never been enacted, having been stalled by legal challenge and redrafting for over a decade. The CIDB’s own FAQ acknowledges it is “working closely” with the Department of Public Works to “review options on how the industry can resolve the problem of delayed payments”, and it has partnered with the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) to finance small contractors squeezed by late payment.
Construction Industry Development Board [issued_by] CIDB Prompt Payment Regulations CIDB Prompt Payment Regulations [opposes] Pay-When-Paid Clauses
The CIDB also runs the surveys (alongside Consulting Engineers South Africa) that establish South African contractors face payment problems comparable to, or worse than, international peers — making it both the regulator and a primary evidence source for the South Africa market note.
Connections
- South Africa — market the CIDB regulates, source: 2023
- CIDB Prompt Payment Regulations — drafted but never enacted by the CIDB, source: 2015
- Pay-When-Paid Clauses — practice the draft regulations would void, source: 2015