Premos

Malatji was not aware that documents were removed from municipality offices to a college for evaluation purposes.

“Are you saying you never became aware that there were irregularities or allegations that documents were removed from municipal offices to a college where evaluation was done? No. I wanted to assure... Those reasons were purely on security issues that, as the BEC have observed, right, before we could start with the actual evaluation process... The storage facility was accessed without control by city officials, right, and that concerned the BEC.”

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.”