Council for Medical Schemes
National department / entity · 8 published awards, 2021Q2 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: 25% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (3 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Services: Professional.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- Open tender: 7 (88%)
- RFQ: 1 (13%)
Median advertised window: 22 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
8 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 12% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.12.
Largest winners by award count: Siphalo Consulting Pty Ltd (1), INDALO BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING (1), NANDI BULABULA (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.
- Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SETA (merSETA)
- Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA)
- Limpopo - Provincial Treasury
- Inkomati Catchment Management Agency
- National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute (NRWDI)
Categories at least two of these peers award that Council for Medical Schemes hasn't published awards in: Other service activities (3 peers), Information and communication (3 peers), Supplies: Computer Equipment (2 peers), Services: Building (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.