The Gauteng Provincial Government will on Wednesday open the adjudication of the Cedar Road tender to the public in an effort to improve transparency in the awarding of contracts.
Gauteng Finance MEC Barbara Creecy and Roads and Transport MEC Ismail Vadi will observe the adjudication from the public gallery. This will be the first time that the adjudication of a tender is conducted in public in Gauteng.
MEC Creecy launched the “open tender process” in November 2014, piloting new steps to improve transparency of the process in line with supply chain management provisions of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).
Twelve companies bid for the tender to upgrade Cedar Road in the City of Johannesburg. The tender issued by Department of Transport closed at 11h00 on 20 January. The tender box was immediately opened in public, bids registered and imprinted and the prices, which ranged between R70 million and R100 million, were announced.
After the opening of boxes, the Department of Transport’s Bid Evaluation Committee, advised by the Provincial Treasury, conducted an initial screening of the bids followed by an evaluation of functionality and experience to deliver. It drew a shortlist to be considered by the Bid Adjudication Committee.
An independent probity team audited the whole process from the closing of the tender to the drawing up to the evaluation process. This probity team report will be part of the documents that will be forwarded to the Bid Adjudication Committee for deliberation and approval. The committee is sitting on 1 April 2015.
The evaluation of the banking tender is still ongoing and will follow the same process as the Cedar Road one. Lessons learnt from both these tenders will be used to develop a provincial policy on transparency in the adjudication of tenders.
Members of the public are invited as follows:
Date: 1 April 2015
Time: 08h00
Venue: Ekurhuleni Council Chambers, Germiston Civic Centre, cnr Cross and President Streets, Germiston
To RSVP contact Joshua Ntimane on 072 065 0984 or joshua.ntimane@gauteng.gov.za
For more information please contact:
John Sukazi
Cell: 083 772 4885
E-mail: John.Sukazi@gauteng.gov.za
