Site & delivery
Refurbishment tender cancelled and re-advertised, then what
Six public buyers have put refurbishment work back on eTenders after an earlier round. What a buyer can find out and change before the second advert.
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Site & delivery
What actually happens between award and handover. Programme, subcontracting, quality, and the failures that show up on site rather than in a contract.
Award is where the paperwork ends and the risk starts. These pieces are about the months between the letter of appointment and the certificate of practical completion: what a grade actually lets you tender, what a class of works means, what happens to a programme when the client's budget runs out, and where the next year's work is. Written for the contractor with forty people who has to price it on Monday.
Site & delivery
The money spent before your tender exists
About R1.8 million of preparation at Matjhabeng helped unlock an R800 million DBSA facility, long before any contractor could price it.
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Site & delivery
Infrastructure procurement gateway review, after the ruling
The draft regulations that would have made gateway reviews compulsory fell with the Procurement Act, and the risk they targeted did not fall with them.
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Site & delivery
Structural steel shortage in South Africa, and the waivers
SAISC now backs tariff waivers one ITAC application at a time, and counts steel whose quality is still to be demonstrated as short.
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Site & delivery
cidb grading levels explained, against real adverts
Nine grades, nine ceilings. The grade that earns is the one that matches work actually being advertised, not the one at the top of the table.
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Site & delivery
When a municipal contract runs out of money at 95%
Johannesburg Water stopped a tower at 95% because the contract budget was exhausted, and the standing time is now somebody's to carry.
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Site & delivery
Construction work in the R2 trillion pipeline
Of 263 projects worth R1,99 trillion, the 54 in documentation are the ones that become tenders. The 82 under construction are somebody else's order book.
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The Arabella Brief
What changed this week, and what it costs you on Monday.
One email on a Friday, covering the week from Friday to Thursday so the week is closed when it is written. What actually changed, everything with a date on it, one development run through what it means for a contractor with forty people, and what we got wrong. A thin week is a short issue.