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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All resources
Municipal infrastructure
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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Cost & decisions
Water infrastructure projects, read for the supplier
Steel main from DN600 to DN1600, centrifuge decanters, a 1 250kVA generator and a SCADA system are all named in R35 billion of planned water work.
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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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Cost & decisions
Tshwane alternative water source RFI, and what to send
Tshwane's RFI on alternative potable water sources closes on 30 October, and the City will use the answers to write the tender specification.
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Compliance
Supplier database registration and where the work hides
The CSD is mandatory and finds you nothing. The work a small firm can win sits on the municipality's own noticeboard, and none of it has to reach eTenders.
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Compliance
Vendor registration for contractors, after the court ruling
The Constitutional Court struck down the Public Procurement Act on 17 September, so you register exactly where you registered before the ruling.
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Compliance
Contractor vetting checklist, and what eThekwini skipped
A Special Tribunal set aside housing appointments the SIU valued at around R30 million. Read the ruling backwards and it is a list of the checks nobody ran.
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Cost & decisions
Buildings grew, construction works shrank
South Africa's economy contracted in the second quarter while construction grew, and the gap between buildings and works tells you which jobs to chase.
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Cost & decisions
What your spec is worth in a municipal tender
Municipal distributors sell 44% of South Africa's electricity, and a correctly specified protection device only survives their tender if the document says so.
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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.