Services Sector Education and Training Authority
National department / entity · 30 published awards, 2021Q2 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: 43% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (13 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Other service activities, Administrative and support activities, Information and communication.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- Open tender: 23 (77%)
- RFP: 7 (23%)
Median advertised window: 28 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
25 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 13% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.05.
Largest winners by award count: AFROCENTRIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (4), DIMENSION DATA (2), FONA RESOURCES AND PROJECTS (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.
- Northern Cape - Agriculture and Land Reform
- Home Affairs
- South African Post Office Limited
- South African National Parks
- Kwazulu Natal - Department of Agriculture and Rural Develeopment
Categories at least two of these peers award that Services Sector Education and Training Authority hasn't published awards in: Services: Functional (Including Cleaning and Security Services) (3 peers), Supplies: Computer Equipment (2 peers), Supplies: Electrical Equipment (2 peers), Security and investigation activities (2 peers), Printing and reproduction of recorded media (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.