Basic Education
National department / entity · 9 published awards, 2021Q2 to 2025Q3
Based on tenders published to the National Treasury eTenders portal. Municipalities and SOEs are not obliged to publish here: absence of data is not absence of procurement. Coverage for this buyer: 67% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (5 categories)
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- Open tender: 6 (67%)
- Limited / direct: 2 (22%)
- RFP: 1 (11%)
Median advertised window: 24 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
8 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 22% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.14.
Largest winners by award count: MATLAILAS PLUMBING AND BUILDERS (2), Gemini Moon Trading 7 (Pty) Ltd t/a Nexus Travel (1), ATLANTIS CORPORATE TRAVEL (1).
Names restate the published award record; nothing analytic is attached to any name, and concentration is a market-structure observation, not an accusation: small buyers and specialist categories concentrate naturally. Right of reply →
Buyers with similar baskets
Nearest procurement mixes by revealed specialisation (cosine similarity), regardless of sphere or size. Descriptive, not a comparison of performance.
- National School of Government
- Castle Control Board
- Mining Qualifications Authority
- Limpopo - Sport Arts and culture
- Government Printing Works
Categories at least two of these peers award that Basic Education hasn't published awards in: Supplies: General (2 peers), Services: Functional (Including Cleaning and Security Services) (2 peers), Information and communication (2 peers), Administrative and support activities (2 peers), Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.