22 companies

The tender was evaluated with 22 companies considered successful by the Bid Evaluation Committee (BEC), but the entire process was stopped and cancelled due to missing documents and irregularities as per the Bid Adjudication Committee (BAC).

“...there was a total evaluation of 22 companies, and they did the complete evaluation and those 22 companies have been in the BEC the whole time. But when it was then submitted... with a recommendation that that whole process must be stopped and cancelled.”

Information about the 22 companies considered successful was probably leaked by the City, and the companies then took legal action to assert their success and the court ruled they must be awarded the tender.

“...everyone leaked most probably the information, and then the 22 companies knew that they were deemed by the BAC to be successful, but they took then the decision to court to say, no, but we are successful, and that is when the court then made the ruling to say that those 22 companies we initially were must be awarded the tender.”

The list of 22 companies commenced the tender contract on 1 March 2022 and are still working under this contract, which was initially for a three-year period ending on 28 February 2025.

“So the list of 22 companies that was then awarded and commenced on the 1st of March 2022, and to date is still working under this contract... this tender which then commenced on the 1st of March 2022, as per the prescripts of the MFMA Act, three year period, then concluded on the 28th of February 2025 as a contract at that stage.”