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South Africa : NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY augments due-date to provide upcoming contractors an equal bidding opportunity
Publish Date : 06-Feb-2016
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality concluded to increase the due-date for a minor works tender at focused at procuring services like kerbing, road works and the maintenance of stormwater drains amongst others to permit for a fair and equal bidding chance for emerging contractors.
The municipality said, "This decision was necessitated after the tender, advertised as SCM 16 - 35/S: TREINNIAL TENDER FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANCILLARY WORKS was initially scheduled to close on Thursday, 4 February."
"To date 1 200 tender documents were purchased with large scores of people visiting the offices demanding more documents late this afternoon resulting in the municipality running out.
"To put this huge call into perspective on average 100 documents per tender would be sufficient to satisfy demand.
"However the extraordinary plea for tender documentation a day before the closure now means that the closing date will be moved to Thursday, 18 February, two weeks from now.
