National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications
National department / entity · 13 published awards, 2021Q2 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: 23% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (8 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Services: General.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- RFP: 6 (46%)
- Open tender: 6 (46%)
- RFQ: 1 (8%)
Median advertised window: 25 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
12 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 15% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.09.
Largest winners by award count: MICROSEP (2), DISTINCT LEARNING INSTITUTION (1), DELTA PROPERTY FUND (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.
- KZN Growth Fund Trust
- Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa Limited
- Dawid kruiper Local Municipality
- Overberg Water
- State Diamond Trader
Categories at least two of these peers award that National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications hasn't published awards in: Security and investigation activities (3 peers), Construction (2 peers), Supplies: General (2 peers), Other service activities (2 peers), Accommodation (2 peers), Financial and insurance activities (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.