National department / entity · 481 published awards, 2022Q1 to 2026Q2
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: 73% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (38 categories)
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Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Services: General, Legal and accounting activities, Publishing activities, Rental and leasing activities, Advertising and market research, Printing and reproduction of recorded media.
Awards per quarter
Typical award value vs the national median
Bounded medians over awards with usable values only; small samples are excluded. A ratio above 1 means this buyer's typical award in the category is larger than the national typical award, which can reflect scope, project size or pricing.
Median advertised window: 6 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
290 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 6% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.01.
Largest winners by award count: LAWTONS(30), BRANDSWELL(18), ENTERPRISES UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA(10).
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.