Ratlou Local Municipality
Municipality / municipal entity · 6 published awards, 2024Q2 to 2025Q1
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: 100% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (4 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Construction.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- Open tender: 6 (100%)
Median advertised window: 35 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
6 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 17% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.17.
Largest winners by award count: BLT N P GROUP (1), JKGB SOLUTIONS (1), BATAUNG PROJECTS AND TRAINING (1).
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Buyers with similar baskets
Nearest procurement mixes by revealed specialisation (cosine similarity), regardless of sphere or size. Descriptive, not a comparison of performance.
- Northern Cape - Economic Development and Tourism
- Artscape
- Public Service Sector Education and Training Authority
- Higher Education & Training
- Water Research Commission
Categories at least two of these peers award that Ratlou Local Municipality hasn't published awards in: Services: Professional (5 peers), Services: General (3 peers), Services: Functional (Including Cleaning and Security Services) (3 peers), Information and communication (2 peers), Professional, scientific and technical activities (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.
Capital spend context
Audited capital expenditure for Ratlou (NW381) from National Treasury's Municipal Money, for scale against the 6 awards published here. Large capex with few published awards usually means procurement happens outside the eTenders portal, not that it is not happening.