City of Cape Town
Municipality / municipal entity · Western Cape · CPT · 77 published awards, 2021Q3 to 2025Q4
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: 29% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography hand-checked.
What it buys (22 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Services: General, Supplies: General, Services: Electrical, Services: Civil.
Awards per quarter
Typical award value vs the national median
Bounded medians over awards with usable values only; small samples are excluded. A ratio above 1 means this buyer's typical award in the category is larger than the national typical award, which can reflect scope, project size or pricing.
| Category | This buyer | National | Ratio | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Services: General | R138m | R5m | 25.9× | 7 |
Method mix
- RFP: 44 (57%)
- Open tender: 32 (42%)
- RFI: 1 (1%)
Median advertised window: 32 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
67 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 4% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.02.
Largest winners by award count: TUBOSEAL SERVICES (3), ACTOM (3), DIMENSION DATA (2).
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.
- South African Revenue Service
- King Cetshwayo Municipality
- Kopanong Local Municipality
- Limpopo - Limpopo Roads Agency
- Free State - Police, Roads and Transport
Categories at least two of these peers award that City of Cape Town hasn't published awards in: Supplies: Computer Equipment (2 peers), Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning (2 peers), Food and beverage service activities (2 peers), Travel agency, tour operator, reservation service and related activities (2 peers), Services to buildings and landscape activities (2 peers), Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.
Capital spend context
Audited capital expenditure for Cape Town (CPT) from National Treasury's Municipal Money, for scale against the 77 awards published here. Large capex with few published awards usually means procurement happens outside the eTenders portal, not that it is not happening.
Neighbours also buying
Categories several buyers in Western Cape awarded during 2025Q4 and 2026Q1: where needs overlap, joint or transversal procurement can save real money.
- Services: Professional · 17 buyers (including this one) e.g. Overstrand Municipality; Stellenbosch Municipality; Road Accident Fund
- Supplies: General · 13 buyers (including this one) e.g. Cape Winelands District Municipality; National Research Foundation; Swellendam Municipality
- Construction · 11 buyers (including this one) e.g. Stellenbosch Municipality; Swellendam Municipality; Laingsburg Municipality
- Services: General · 10 buyers (including this one) e.g. Cape Winelands District Municipality; Swellendam Municipality; Garden Route District Local Municipality
- Other service activities · 10 buyers (including this one) e.g. George Municipality; Swellendam Municipality; Overstrand Municipality