The Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone
National department / entity · 8 published awards, 2025Q1 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: 88% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (6 categories)
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- Open tender: 8 (100%)
Median advertised window: 33 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
8 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 12% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.12.
Largest winners by award count: imidwi - phelecon construction jv (1), BABICON TRADING 1 (1), INFINITY GROWTH DIGITAL MARKETING (1).
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.
- South African National Roads Agency Soc Limited (SANRAL)
- Emadlangeni Local Municipality
- National Consumer Commission
- eDumbe Local Municipality
- Chief Albert Luthuli Municipality
Categories at least two of these peers award that The Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone hasn't published awards in: Services: Professional (3 peers), Services: Civil (3 peers), Services: General (2 peers), Construction of buildings (2 peers), Supplies: Electrical Equipment (2 peers), Computer programming, consultancy and related activities (2 peers), Services to buildings and landscape activities (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.