BY BUSINESS EDITOR
SIPHOFANENI – Icon Construction (Pty) Ltd has been enlisted as the best evaluated tenderer to be awarded the construction of homesteads tender.
The tender was issued by the Eswatini Water and Agricultural Development Enterprise, LTD (EWADE) and a total of 14 companies expressed their intention for the contract. This was revealed by the Eswatini Public Procurement Regulatory Agency (ESPPRA) on their website.
The intention to award the company was published on Thursday and they are expected to begin executing it after a period of 10 working days, should they not be contested.
According to the regulator, ESWADE was looking for a company to resettle 17 homesteads under the EWADE MNWAP. The proposed contract price by the best evaluated tenderer was E5 340 416.03.
As the requesting entity, EWADE was also in charge for the procuring of the tender as well as its approvals. EWADE requested unsuccessful bidders to submit an application for review with the agency within 10 working days. “All tenderers who submitted bids are hereby notified that a period of 10 working days is hereby allowed to for submission of any application for review,” said EWADE.
The upcoming Mkhondvo-Ngwavuma Water Augmentation Project (MNWAP) is expected to see the production of cotton and beans in the country being prioritised and increased.
Government has tasked ESWADE and NMC to produce over 30 000 metric tons of grain maize through the commercial maize project. NMC is the National Maize Corporation. This project has the mammoth task of assisting the country to attain its food and nutrition security through the production of 30 000 metric tons of grain maize on annual basis.
This tasked is to be achieved through the amalgamation of farmers under Eswatini Nation Land, commercial maize production on the Government farms. For the project to be a success, government has allocated E44 million entrusting ESWADE with the facilitation of maize production in the country through the commercial maize project and a partnership with NMC.
It means farmers and commercial maize producers have been afforded an opportunity to supply government with maize and in turn, government would assist them through loans and further avail a market for them.
