tender 3/2425

The replacement tender 3/2425 was completed, evaluated, and selected for probity review, which extended far beyond the initial expected 30 days, lasting until mid-October 2025.

“This new replacement tender, which is the 3/2425, was then obviously completed and it was evaluated. And in this process, at the end of March, beginning of April, when the BEC concluded its work, this tender was then selected for probity. And probity process then ran its course, which initially was thought it would only be 30 days. It eventually ran up to the middle of October.”

The tender 3/2425 was cancelled due to two reasons found by probity: ambiguous pricing schedule and missing six bid documents causing irregularity, requiring a fresh tender process.

“the 3/2425 , must be cancelled because there were two reasons that was given on the report . The one reason – and it comes from probity, what probity found . The one reason was that the pricing schedule that was attached to the tender originally was ambiguous . And the reason for the ambiguity was that the BEC stated that on the pricing schedule there may be no blank spaces ... the second finding was that when the documents was removed from supply chain in the BEC, there was a register where probity signed for all the documents, all the bid documents . However, when they returned it , six documents were missing. And that missing documents then caused the second reason why this tender... be cancelled because of this irregularity”

The tender 3/2425 was mistakenly referred to as tender 1/2425 by Adv Chaskalson SC during the inquiry.

“If you look at the heading on page 980, you will see that it does not relate to tender 1/2425, which was the tender we discussed yesterday. It relates to tender 3/2425.”

If you were a bidder for tender 3/2425 like Mr Mampane was, and saw your price would lose, you would have an even bigger incentive to get tender 3/2425 cancelled.

“If you were a bidder for tender 3/2425 , like you say Mr Mampane was , and you saw a list of all the bidders and all their prices and you realised that your price was going to lose , you would have an even bigger incentive to get tender 3/2425 cancelled .”