Water Research Commission
National department / entity · 21 published awards, 2021Q2 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: 43% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (8 categories)
Distinctive vs the national mix (RCA ≥ 1.5): Services: Professional, Services: General, Information and communication.
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- Open tender: 14 (67%)
- RFP: 5 (24%)
- RFQ: 2 (10%)
Median advertised window: 24 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
21 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 5% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.05.
Largest winners by award count: EMTELLE (PTY) LTD (1), Zwiito Cleaning (1), XTLG Consulting & Projects Cc T/A Excellent Security Services (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.
- Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator
- Higher Education & Training
- Ratlou Local Municipality
- Public Service Sector Education and Training Authority
- Council for the Built Environment
Categories at least two of these peers award that Water Research Commission hasn't published awards in: Accommodation (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.