The Eastern Cape Department of Health invites bids for the supply, delivery, and maintenance of training manikins and other training equipment for clinical simulation laboratories at Lilitha Colleges of Nursing and other facilities in the Eastern Cape over a 3-year rate-based contract. Bids must be submitted online via the eTender portal by October 7, 2026. Evaluation involves administrative compliance, mandatory requirements (including CPR/SAHPRA compliance), functionality, sample submission, and a final 80/20 point system (Price/Specific Goals). The contract duration is 36 months, with prices firm for the first 12 months.
The warranty shall remain valid for twelve 12 months after the goods, or any portion thereof as the case may be, have been delivered to and accepted at the final destination indicated in the contract, or for eighteen 18 months after the date of shipment from the port or place of loading in the source country, whichever period concludes earlier, unless specified otherwise in scc.
The bid will be award ed to the highest point scoring bidder.
Bidders must meet administrative qualification criteria as per preferential procurement regulations of 2022, and mandatory compliance requirements must be met.
If the supplier fails to deliver any or all of the goods or to perform the services within the periods specified in the contract, the purchaser shall, without prejudice to its other remedies under the contract, deduct from the contract price, as a penalty, a sum calculated on the delivered price of the delayed goods or unperformed services using the current prime interest rate calculated for each day of the delay until actual delivery or performance.
All the service providers who have met the 2nd and 3rd stage criteria will be required to provide samples and demonstration.
Failure to comply with any of the mandatory criteria above will result in disqualification of bidders.
The bid will be evaluated as follows: stage 1: administrative compliance, stage 2: mandatory nonnegotiable requirements, stage 3: functionality, stage 4: call for samples, stage 5: price and specific goals.