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Trade & Industry

National department / entity · 32 published awards, 2021Q3 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: 59% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.

What it buys (4 categories)

Services: Professional · 29 awards (90.6%)Services: Professional29 awardsTravel agency, tour operator, reservation service and related activities · 1 awards (3.1%)Other service activities · 1 awards (3.1%)Other personal service activities · 1 awards (3.1%)
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Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Services: Professional.

Awards per quarter

2021Q1: 0 awards2021Q2: 0 awards2021Q3: 3 awards2021Q4: 4 awards2022Q1: 2 awards2022Q2: 1 awards2022Q3: 3 awards2022Q4: 0 awards2023Q1: 0 awards2023Q2: 0 awards2023Q3: 0 awards2023Q4: 0 awards2024Q1: 1 awards2024Q2: 0 awards2024Q3: 4 awards2024Q4: 1 awards2025Q1: 1 awards2025Q2: 2 awards2025Q3: 2 awards2025Q4: 0 awards2026Q1: 4 awards2026Q2: 4 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
Services: ProfessionalR131mR9m15.1×19

Method mix

  • Open tender: 20 (63%)
  • RFP: 6 (19%)
  • Limited / direct: 3 (9%)
  • Other: 2 (6%)
  • RFQ: 1 (3%)

Median advertised window: 21 days (national median 19).

Supplier concentration

29 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 9% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.04.

Largest winners by award count: EVSOL EVENTSAFE SPECIALISED SERVICES (3), MORAR (2), Tumeng Lee Media (Pty) Ltd (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.

Categories at least two of these peers award that Trade & Industry hasn't published awards in: Services: General (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.