BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
MBABANE – The Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (SPTC) has presented a business opportunity to renowned printing and publishing companies for the compilation, selling of advertising space and printing of the Eswatini telecommunications directory.
In specifications of the telecommunications directory it has been stipulated that the telecommunications directory will be printed once a year and the date of publication will be December of each year.
The quality of paper on which the directory will be printed on, the cover in which these are bound and general lay out should be specified and agreed upon with the corporation.
Each page should have three columns of 7.2 centimetres.
It was also stated that the particulars of entries with respect to telephone subscribers, postal boxes and private bag renters involving new additions, deletions, and any other alterations in entry format will be communicated to the printing company three months before printing.
In the invitation to tender, whose deadline will be August 17, it has been stipulated that proof reading will be carried out at agreed intervals before final printing and corporation’s acceptance would be undertaken and scheduled jointly between the Corporation and the printer.
The printer shall produce a dummy copy of the directory, and it shall be signed off by Corporation before printing of the actual 60 000 copies per year.
SPTC, a body corporate, was established in April 1986 under Act No. 11 of 1983.
This Act regulates all the activities of SPTC. The SPTC is responsible to the Minister for Information and Communications and Technology (ICT), who in turn is answerable to government for the activities of the Corporation.
The Public Enterprises - Control and Monitoring Act No. 8 of 1989 classifies the Corporation as a category A Public Enterprise, as a body wholly owned by government or in which government has a majority interest.”
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