Vusi Nkuna

There were discrepancies between the proposed Bid Specification Committee members in the original TAR and the actual Bid Specification Committee members who approved the tender, with original members including Directors Racheku, N Moosa, Commissioner Sibaya, Faik Alexander, and Pieter Robinson, and actual members including Kes Matlapen (Chairperson), Vusi Nkuna (Director Land Invasion), Sipho Nkomo (Director TMPD), Faik Alexander (Director Secretariat Services), and Pieter Robinson (Group Legal Deputy Director).

“In the original TAR, there was a proposed Bid Specification Committee, which the department then proposed, which stated that these members are Director Racheku, Director N Moosa, Commissioner Sibaya, Mr Faik Alexander, and Mr Pieter Robinson. However, when these bid specifications were serving at the initial Bid Specification Committee on Monday, 1 September, the committee members that actually did the BSC, it was not the same as the Bid Specification Committee nominations. So the members in paragraph 11 then is the actual members who approved the bid specification of this tender, and they were Mr Kes Matlapen, he was a Director at the Tshwane Metro Police, he was the Chairperson, Mr Vusi Nkuna, which is indicated as the Director Land Invasion, a Mr Sipho Nkomo, Director Tshwane Metro Police, and Mr Faik Alexander, who is from Supply Chain Management, he is the Director of Secretariat Services, and then Mr Pieter Robinson, Group Legal Deputy Director for the Corporate and Council Legal Compliance.”

The first Bid Evaluation Committee (BEC) for the tender was chaired by Moloko Racheku and included members Tshukudu Malatji, Vusi Nkuna, Malusi Mahlanga, and Morutse Mphahlele, but irregularities were found during the first BEC evaluation leading to a report submitted to the Executive Adjudication Committee recommending that the entire process be restarted.

“The first Bid Evaluation Committee was a Mr Moloko Racheku, who was the Chairperson, Mr Tshukudu Malatji, Mr Vusi Nkuna, Mr Malusi Mahlanga, and Mr Morutse Mphahlele. ... It is not that I do have personal knowledge of this, because there seem to have been irregularities with the first bid evaluation process, because on 24 January 017 a report was submitted to the Executive Adjudication Committee by a Mr Thembeka Mphefu, in which irregularities during the first BEC were detected. It was then recommended that the entire process be restarted... From Mr Mphefu's report ... it stated that this first BEC Committee removed all the bid documents of all the tenderers from the supply chain management premises to an unknown venue at Premos.”