Transportation Vehicle Tenders

The council does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tenders.

All tenderers must be registered on the municipality's suppliers database.

Attendance at the compulsory clarification meeting is mandatory for bid consideration.

A bid from a prospective bidder who did not attend a prescribed compulsory site meeting or briefing session will not be considered.

The delivery of goods and performance of services shall be made by the supplier in accordance with the time schedule prescribed by the purchaser in the contract.

The method and conditions of payment to be made to the supplier under this contract shall be specified in SCC. Payments shall be made promptly by the purchaser, but in no case later than thirty 30 days after submission of an invoice or claim by the supplier.

The supplier warrants that the goods supplied under the contract are new, unused, of the most recent or current models and that they incorporate all recent improvements in design and materials unless provided otherwise in the contract. This 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.

Points for this tender even in the case of a tender for income-generating contracts shall be awarded for: a price and b specific goals. The applicable preference point system for this tender is the 80/20 preference point system.

Bidders are required to complete in full the attached form TCC 001 Application for a Tax Clearance Certificate and submit it to any SARS branch office nationally. The original tax clearance certificate must be submitted together with the bid. Failure to submit the original and valid tax clearance certificate will result in the invalidation of the bid.

Subject to GCC clause 25, 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.

The bid of any bidder may be rejected if that bidder, or any of its directors have: a. abused the municipality’s municipal entity’s supply chain management system or committed any improper conduct in relation to such system b. been convicted for fraud or corruption during the past five years c. willfully neglected, reneged on or failed to comply with any government, municipal or other public sector contract during the past five years or d. been listed in the register for tender defaulters in terms of section 29 of the prevention and combating of corrupt activities act no 12 of ****.

The bid notice states that completed bid documentation must be deposited on or before 12h00 on **** in the tender box situated at the main entrance of the municipality civic centre, 9 park street, malalane.

The bid notice states that tender documentation is available upon the payment of a nonrefundable amount of r1 **** on each tender document.

The bid notice states that a preferential system shall apply whereby this contract will be allocated to a bidder in accordance with the preferential procurement policy framework act, no 5 of **** and as defined in the bid document, read in conjunction with the preferential procurement regulation, 2022 where 80 points will be allocated in respect of price and 20 points in respect of targeted goals.

The bid notice states that all abusers of the scm system, including or faking of returnable documents, may be reported to saps and restricted from doing business with any public institution for a period not exceeding 10 years is in line with section 28 and 29 of the prevention and combating of corrupt activities act 12 of ****.

The bid notice states that a noncompulsory tenderer briefing session will be held on **** at 10h00 at the municipal town hall kobwa hall atish eagle.

The bid notice states that all abusers of the scm system, including or faking of returnable documents, may be reported to saps and restricted from doing business with any public institution for a period not exceeding 10 years is in line with section 28 and 29 of the prevention and combating of corrupt activities act 12 of ****.