Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality
Municipality / municipal entity · Limpopo · 9 published awards, 2021Q3 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: 11% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography hand-checked.
What it buys (5 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Accommodation.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- RFP: 4 (44%)
- Open tender: 4 (44%)
- RFQ: 1 (11%)
Median advertised window: 18 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
9 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 11% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.11.
Largest winners by award count: Ntshiana Trading Enterprise (1), MONTANI PROPERTY VALUERS (1), Mentortech (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.
- North West - Department of Public Works and Roads
- Electoral Commission (IEC)
- Legal Aid South Africa
- Commission for Gender Equality
- National Youth Development Agency
Categories at least two of these peers award that Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality hasn't published awards in: Services: General (3 peers), Other service activities (2 peers), Supplies: Computer Equipment (2 peers), Information and communication (2 peers), Professional, scientific and technical activities (2 peers), Information service activities (2 peers), Advertising and market research (2 peers), Financial and insurance activities (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.
Capital spend context
Audited capital expenditure for Ephraim Mogale (LIM471) from National Treasury's Municipal Money, for scale against the 9 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 Limpopo awarded during 2025Q4 and 2026Q1: where needs overlap, joint or transversal procurement can save real money.
- Services: Professional · 9 buyers (including this one) e.g. Limpopo - Economic Development Environment & Tourism; Limpopo - Office of the Premier; Limpopo - Public Works
- Construction · 5 buyers (including this one) e.g. Higher Education and Training - Mopani East TVET College; Limpopo - Public Works; South African National Biodiversity Institute
- Supplies: General · 4 buyers (including this one) e.g. South African Revenue Service; Sekhukhune District Municipality; Limpopo - Limpopo Roads Agency
- Other service activities · 4 buyers e.g. Limpopo - Economic Development Environment & Tourism; Department of Rural Development & Land Reform; South African Local Government Association
- Information and communication · 3 buyers e.g. Justice & Constitutional Development; Limpopo - Economic Development Environment & Tourism; Limpopo - Education