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TWO HORSE RACE FOR E250 000 IDP TENDER

23/08/2018 04:25:00 BY KWANELE DHLADHLA

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MBABANE – It was a two horse race in the tender for preparation of the capital city’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP).

Tender results issued by Municipal Council of Mbabane Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gideon Mhlongo, which were published by the Swaziland Public Procurement Regulatory Agency (SPPRA), reflect that among the competing duo of Altersol Consulting Limited and VIP Property Consultants (Pty) Ltd, the former - emerged as the best evaluated tenderer.

The company amassed a total of 77 points during the evaluation exercise where the approvals authority was the city’s finance committee. It was reported that there was only a 70 per cent difference between VIP Property Consultants Pty (Ltd) and Altersol which managed to score 70 points.
The proposed contract price for preparing the IDP was E258 300. VIP Property Consultants, on the other hand, had priced their bid at E252 000.
In accordance with the Public Procurement Act of 2011, Mhlongo announced that a period of 10 working days would be allowed for the submission of any application for review.

“The contract award decision does not constitute a contract,” Mhlongo clarified.
It should be mentioned that just like the capital city which is getting itself ready to outline upcoming developmental projects in the IDP, the Municipal Council of Ezulwini, Nhlangano and Pigg’s Peak also recently announced that they would also soon have a joint financial management and billing system to improve efficiency.

The system will be supplied and implemented by a South African company, Finware Enterprise Systems, which has been enlisted as the best evaluated tenderer for the project valued at E1.6 million.

The company, which scored 93 per cent during evaluation, outsmarted AM Consultancy, which amassed 73 per cent and Bytes Systems which only managed to score 58 per cent. Evaluation undertaken in accordance with the Public Procurement Act of 2011 was based on 60 per cent technical and 40 per cent financial proposals.

In terms of pricing, the best evaluated tenderer had submitted the lowest bid price of E1 686 472.64. The highest among the tenderers was Bytes Systems at E8 283 591.