Mossel Bay Municipality
Municipality / municipal entity · Western Cape · 32 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: 50% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography hand-checked.
What it buys (17 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Services: General, Services: Electrical, Supplies: Electrical Equipment.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- Open tender: 26 (81%)
- RFP: 6 (19%)
Median advertised window: 21 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
29 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 9% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.04.
Largest winners by award count: VE RETICULATION (3), ENTSHA HENRA (2), WILLVEST TWENTY THREE (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 Housing Finance Corporation Limited
- Agricultural Sector Education and Training Authority
- Limpopo - Social Development
- Solplaatje Local Municipality
- Kwazulu Natal - Economic Development, Tourism and Environ Affairs
Categories at least two of these peers award that Mossel Bay Municipality hasn't published awards in: Information and communication (3 peers), Computer programming, consultancy and related activities (3 peers), Security and investigation activities (3 peers), Food and beverage service activities (3 peers), Services: Functional (Including Cleaning and Security Services) (2 peers), Supplies: Stationery/Printing (2 peers), Professional, scientific and technical activities (2 peers), Education (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.
Capital spend context
Audited capital expenditure for Mossel Bay (WC043) from National Treasury's Municipal Money, for scale against the 32 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