Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC)
National department / entity · 10 published awards, 2021Q1 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: 90% 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: Professional.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- Open tender: 8 (80%)
- Other: 1 (10%)
- RFQ: 1 (10%)
Median advertised window: 21 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
7 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 20% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.16.
Largest winners by award count: GEMINI MOON TRADING 7 (2), HEALTH ADVANCE INSTITUTE (2), AE SOFT (2).
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.
- Social Development
- National Economic Development and Labour Council
- Western Cape - Education
- Department of Sports, Arts & Culture
- Limpopo - Education
Categories at least two of these peers award that Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) hasn't published awards in: Services: General (4 peers), Education (3 peers), Other professional, scientific and technical activities (3 peers), Other service activities (2 peers), Professional, scientific and technical activities (2 peers), Security and investigation activities (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.