The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)
National department / entity · 5 published awards, 2023Q3 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: 80% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (4 categories)
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- RFP: 4 (80%)
- RFQ: 1 (20%)
Median advertised window: 21 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
5 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 20% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.20.
Largest winners by award count: LETLAMABO PROJECTS AND INVESTMENTS (1), JUST CLIENT CONSULTING (1), SANKOFA INSURANCE BROKERS (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.
- Umgeni Water
- Department of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development
- Technology Innovation Agency
- Limpopo - Agriculture
- Capricorn District Municipality
Categories at least two of these peers award that The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) hasn't published awards in: Services: Professional (5 peers), Services: General (4 peers), Construction (4 peers), Supplies: General (4 peers), Food and beverage service activities (4 peers), Civil engineering (3 peers), Supplies: Electrical Equipment (3 peers), Supplies: Medical (3 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.