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Swellendam Municipality

Municipality / municipal entity · Western Cape · 234 published awards, 2022Q1 to 2026Q1

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: 70% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography hand-checked.

What it buys (36 categories)

Supplies: General · 60 awards (25.6%)Supplies: General60 awardsServices: General · 33 awards (14.1%)Services: General33 awardsConstruction · 25 awards (10.7%)Construction25 awardsSupplies: Electrical Equipment · 23 awards (9.8%)Supplies: Electrical Equipment23 awardsOther service activities · 12 awards (5.1%)Other service activities12 awardsWholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles · 7 awards (3.0%)Wholesale and …7 awardsRepair and installation of machinery and equipment · 7 awards (3.0%)Repair and ins…7 awardsRental and leasing activities · 7 awards (3.0%)Rental and lea…7 awardsSupplies: Clothing/Textiles/Footwear · 5 awards (2.1%)Supplies: Cl…5 awardsSupplies: Computer Equipment · 4 awards (1.7%)Services: Professional · 4 awards (1.7%)Legal and accounting activities · 4 awards (1.7%)Water collection, treatment and supply · 3 awards (1.3%)Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products · 3 awards (1.3%)Disposals: General · 3 awards (1.3%)Specialised construction activities · 3 awards (1.3%)Services to buildings and landscape activities · 3 awards (1.3%)Information service activities · 2 awards (0.9%)Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning · 2 awards (0.9%)Financial and insurance activities · 2 awards (0.9%)Other personal service activities · 2 awards (0.9%)Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities · 2 awards (0.9%)Supplies: Stationery/Printing · 2 awards (0.9%)Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery · 2 awards (0.9%)Services: Electrical · 2 awards (0.9%)Publishing activities · 2 awards (0.9%)Information and communication · 1 awards (0.4%)Civil engineering · 1 awards (0.4%)Professional, scientific and technical activities · 1 awards (0.4%)Computer programming, consultancy and related activities · 1 awards (0.4%)Human health activities · 1 awards (0.4%)Employment activities · 1 awards (0.4%)Transportation and storage · 1 awards (0.4%)Activities auxiliary to financial service and insurance activities. · 1 awards (0.4%)Remediation activities and other waste management services · 1 awards (0.4%)Construction of buildings · 1 awards (0.4%)
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Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Supplies: General, Supplies: Electrical Equipment, Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, Repair and installation of machinery and equipment, Rental and leasing activities, Supplies: Clothing/Textiles/Footwear.

Awards per quarter

2021Q1: 0 awards2021Q2: 0 awards2021Q3: 0 awards2021Q4: 0 awards2022Q1: 1 awards2022Q2: 7 awards2022Q3: 17 awards2022Q4: 9 awards2023Q1: 21 awards2023Q2: 16 awards2023Q3: 17 awards2023Q4: 21 awards2024Q1: 13 awards2024Q2: 13 awards2024Q3: 10 awards2024Q4: 11 awards2025Q1: 26 awards2025Q2: 16 awards2025Q3: 9 awards2025Q4: 20 awards2026Q1: 7 awards2026Q2: 0 awards202120222023202420252026

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.

CategoryThis buyerNationalRation
Supplies: GeneralR5mR4m1.5×41
Services: GeneralR855kR5m0.2×20
ConstructionR13mR45m0.3×19
Supplies: Electrical EquipmentR3mR4m0.7×18
Other service activitiesR4mR8m0.5×11
Rental and leasing activitiesR3mR25m0.1×7
Supplies: Clothing/Textiles/FootwearR5mR2m2.4×5
Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcyclesR3mR7m0.5×5

Method mix

  • Open tender: 120 (51%)
  • RFQ: 110 (47%)
  • Limited / direct: 2 (1%)
  • RFP: 1 (0%)
  • Other: 1 (0%)

Median advertised window: 15 days (national median 19).

Supplier concentration

170 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 2% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.01.

Largest winners by award count: POTGIETER BROERS GRONDVERSKUIWING (5), SENTRAAL-SUID KOÖPERASIE BEPERK (5), MEMOTEK TRADING (5).

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.

Categories at least two of these peers award that Swellendam Municipality hasn't published awards in: Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities (3 peers), Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis (3 peers), Services: Functional (Including Cleaning and Security Services) (2 peers), Other professional, scientific and technical activities (2 peers), Telecommunications (2 peers), Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding (2 peers), Printing and reproduction of recorded media (2 peers), Scientific research and development (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.

Capital spend context

Audited capital expenditure for Swellendam (WC034) from National Treasury's Municipal Money, for scale against the 234 awards published here. Large capex with few published awards usually means procurement happens outside the eTenders portal, not that it is not happening.

FY2023
R103m
FY2024
R105m
FY2025
R124m

Full financials on Municipal Money →

Neighbours also buying

Categories several buyers in Western Cape awarded during 2025Q4 and 2026Q1: where needs overlap, joint or transversal procurement can save real money.

  • Services: Professional · 17 buyers (including this one) e.g. Overstrand Municipality; Stellenbosch Municipality; Road Accident Fund
  • Supplies: General · 13 buyers (including this one) e.g. Cape Winelands District Municipality; National Research Foundation; Swellendam Municipality
  • Construction · 11 buyers (including this one) e.g. Stellenbosch Municipality; Swellendam Municipality; Laingsburg Municipality
  • Services: General · 10 buyers (including this one) e.g. Cape Winelands District Municipality; Swellendam Municipality; Garden Route District Local Municipality
  • Other service activities · 10 buyers (including this one) e.g. George Municipality; Swellendam Municipality; Overstrand Municipality