Gauteng names bidders for ‘open tender’ Cedar road upgrade

6th February 2015

By: Sashnee Moodley

Senior Deputy Editor Polity and Multimedia

  

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The Gauteng Provincial Treasury and the Department of Roads and Transport last month revealed the names of the 12 bidders for the Cedar road upgrade tender, which formed part of the province’s open tender pilot project.

The open tender project is aimed at improving transparency, as well as compliance with the supply chain management provisions of the Public Finance Management Act.

Bidding

Officials from the Provincial Treasury and the Department of Roads and Transport publically opened the tender box in the presence of bidders at a high-tech facility with close-circuit television cameras.

The bids were registered, imprinted and the tender amounts, which ranged from R80-million to R100-million, were announced.

“This is the first time that we open and adjudicate tenders in this manner and lessons learned will be used to improve the process and ensure greater public scrutiny of the tendering process,” Finance MEC Barbara Creecy and Roads and Transport MEC Ismail Vadi said in a joint statement.

The bidders for the tender included Sedtrade, Lubbe Construction, Lonerock Construction, Gorogang Plant Hire, Power Construction, Fountain Civil Engineering, Mivami Construction, King Civil/Ludonga joint venture (JV), Lebaka JV, Tshenolo Resources, Down Touch Investments and Phagama Civil & Maintenance.

The names of the bidders, as well as an update on the tender process, will be published on the Provincial Treasury’s website.

The Provincial Treasury’s bid evaluation committee would, in the first week of this month, screen the bids for document compliance, capacity and experience to deliver on the project. By law, any contract worth more than R30-million required contractors to have a Construction Industry Development Board 8CE or above for their bids to be considered.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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