Free State - Human Settlement
Provincial department · Free State · 12 published awards, 2023Q3 to 2025Q2
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: 42% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (6 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Services: Professional.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- RFP: 10 (83%)
- RFQ: 2 (17%)
Median advertised window: 25 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
11 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 17% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.10.
Largest winners by award count: BUTHELEZI VILAKAZI (2), IMPOQO TRADING (1), URBAN PLAN CONSULT (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.
- Kopanong Local Municipality
- Free State - Police, Roads and Transport
- Lesedi Local Municipality
- King Cetshwayo Municipality
- Rustenburg Local Municipality
Categories at least two of these peers award that Free State - Human Settlement hasn't published awards in: Supplies: General (3 peers), Civil engineering (3 peers), Construction (2 peers), Services: Functional (Including Cleaning and Security Services) (2 peers), Services: Electrical (2 peers), Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.
Neighbours also buying
Categories several buyers in Free State awarded during 2025Q4 and 2026Q1: where needs overlap, joint or transversal procurement can save real money.
- Services: General · 4 buyers (including this one) e.g. ESKOM; Free State - Health; Free State - Public Works
- Construction · 2 buyers e.g. ESKOM; National Lotteries Commission
- Services: Functional (Including Cleaning and Security Services) · 2 buyers e.g. Department of Rural Development & Land Reform; Road Accident Fund