Consulting Engineers South Africa's Abe Thela on SA's 20 years of democracy
As a sector, the consulting engineering profession has made a substantial contribution to the economic growth of the country, with a focus on the provision of social and economic infrastructure. In his 2014 presidential message, entitled ‘Sustaining Consulting Engineering is Key to Growing the Economy’, Abe Thela, president of Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) raised a number of challenges facing the industry.
By far the challenge that will make the biggest impact on the economic growth of the country is the revision of government procurement policies. Cesa is calling on government to revise the current procurement of professional services to a system that is driven by ‘quality’, not ‘price’. While Cesa does not oppose competitive bidding, which is a constitutional imperative, does not believe that price should be the determining basis.
The organisation believes that it should be based on quality, taking into account the bidder’s qualifications, experience, capability and innovation. This will also encourage the development of engineering and technical skills, not only within the sector, but within government, so necessary to maintain new as well as existing infrastructure and ultimately realising the goals of government’s National Development Plan.
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