Data story · eTenders award notices · Aug 2024 – Jul 2026
12,073 awards in South Africa went to 6,413 suppliers from August 2024 to July 2026. Of 6,413 winning suppliers, 69% won once. Their awards are 37% of the total. The top 1% of suppliers won 14% of the awards, below the median across the 34 countries with a story: 18%.
The stated value is more concentrated than the awards here: 21% against 14% for the top 1%. No supplier won more than 2% of the awards. Modulaodira Trading And Projects 47 won the most: 188.
- Awards
- 12,073
- Contract awards from Aug 2024 – Jul 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 6,413
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 69%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 14%
- Share of awards won by the 64 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.40
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
- Stated value (ZAR)
- ZAR 2.98 trillion
- From the 96% of awards that state an amount, capped at the 99.9th percentile.
- Top 1% by stated value
- 21%
- Share of stated value won by the top 1% of suppliers by value.
How the awards spread across suppliers
South Africa ranks 37th of 40 countries for the Gini coefficient and 28th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (ZAR) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modulaodira Trading And Projects 47 | 188 | 2% | 41.2 billion | 1% |
| 2 | Starniche Trading Enterprise | 131 | 1% | 31.0 billion | 1% |
| 3 | LKGA Construction and Projects | 70 | under 1% | 16.9 billion | under 1% |
| 4 | Western And Eastern Cape Consulting Engineers | 66 | under 1% | 16.2 billion | under 1% |
| 5 | Bidvest Office | 53 | under 1% | 2.27 billion | under 1% |
| 6 | Sotobe Chartered Accountants | 48 | under 1% | 3.47 billion | under 1% |
| 7 | Fidelity Security Services (Pty)Ltd | 45 | under 1% | 17.8 billion | under 1% |
| 8 | Alkaline Batteries a Division of Actom (Pty) Ltd | 39 | under 1% | 8.25 billion | under 1% |
| 9 | Blue Turtle Technologies / Blue Networks And Infrastructure | 38 | under 1% | 14.5 billion | under 1% |
| 10 | Modise Protection Services | 36 | under 1% | 17.3 billion | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (ZAR) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justice & Constitutional Development | 566 | 5% | 33.6 billion | 1% |
| 2 | Public Works | 475 | 4% | 242 billion | 8% |
| 3 | South African Revenue Service | 423 | 4% | 34.2 billion | 1% |
| 4 | ESKOM | 411 | 3% | 258 billion | 9% |
| 5 | Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa | 396 | 3% | 58.1 billion | 2% |
| 6 | Transnet SOC Ltd | 356 | 3% | 105 billion | 4% |
| 7 | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) | 291 | 2% | 34.5 billion | 1% |
| 8 | Ingquza Hill Local Municipality | 259 | 2% | 6.25 billion | under 1% |
| 9 | Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority | 254 | 2% | 165 billion | 6% |
| 10 | South African Local Government Association | 240 | 2% | 11.7 billion | under 1% |
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
Sectors
The award records for South Africa have no CPV code, so this story has no sector table.
CPV sector: the sector of the award's CPV code, the EU classification of what a contract buys. Our keyword sector labels elsewhere on the site can give other counts.
How we counted
- eTenders award notices for South Africa. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- August 2024 to July 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for South Africa, up to the last month with a normal number of awards.
- The records for South Africa have no CPV code, so this story shows no sector numbers. We do not use our keyword sector labels: a hand check found too many wrong labels for most sectors.
- We count each award once: one notice, one amount, one date. We leave out awards with no supplier name, placeholder names such as "persona natural", names that are only a legal form, and names that appear on thousands of unrelated awards.
- We count suppliers by normalised name. A firm under two spellings counts as two suppliers, so the "won one award" share is an upper bound.
- Stated value is the amount in the award notice, in ZAR. It is often the ceiling of a framework agreement, and the money paid can be lower. When several winners share one notice and one amount, we split the amount. We cap each award at the 99.9th percentile of the awards in South Africa. 96% of the awards state an amount, ZAR 2.98 trillion in total.
- These numbers show how the awards spread across suppliers. They do not show why.
The method is the method of our study of 39 countries: who wins government contracts. Other countries: who wins, country by country. The sector pages show the same numbers for each country and sector with enough data.
Snapshot 9 October 2026. Awards from August 2024 to July 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.