BY BUSINESS EDITOR
MBABANE – Mbabane Motors (Pty) Ltd has been enlisted as the best evaluated tenderer to be awarded the over E4 million motor vehicle supply tender.
The tender was issued by the National Emergency Response Council on HIV AIDS (NERCHA) and three companies expressed their intention for the contract. These include NTT Toyota (Pty) Ltd and MoTruck who were not competitively priced.
This was revealed by the Eswatini Public Procurement Regulatory Agency (ESPPRA) on their website.
The intention to award the company was published last week Friday and they are expected to begin executing it after a period of 10 working days, should they not be contested.
According to the regulator, NERCHA was looking for a company to supply them with three motor vehicles. The proposed contract price by the best evaluated tenderer was over E4.1 million and when evaluated.
As the requesting entity, NERCHA was also in charge for the procuring of the tender as well as its approvals. NERCHA 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 NERCHA.
To address procurement challenges, The African Public Procurement Network (APPN) Second General Assembly (SGA) was hosted in Eswatini. This was mentioned by Eswatini Public Procurement Regulatory Agency (ESPPRA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vusi Matsebula in an interview.
Matsebula said they hosted delegates from the 54 heads of public procurement regulatory authorities from the networks’ member countries, representatives of the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, representatives from local organizations in the private sector, SMEs, construction sector, civil society, public sector and other key bodies,” he added.
The CEO further stated that topics to be covered in the SGA include public procurement and its relevance for development and economic growth in Africa through harmonization of laws and practices, complementary policy objectives, promotion of private sector, control corruption and public service delivery.
He mentioned that they would also discuss public procurement system development challenges in Africa and how African countries are dealing with them. The CEO also mentioned that environmentally and socially responsible procurement, harmonization of public procurement legislation/regulation and practices in Africa was discussed in detail.
“Using public procurement data to support sustainable as well as inclusive economic development data to support sustainable and inclusive economic development cannot be left out,” he added.
