Africa-Press – Eswatini. South Africa’s Tavrida Electric (Pty) Ltd has been enlisted as the best evaluated tenderer to be awarded the Eswatini Electricity Company (EEC) contract.
This was revealed by the Eswatini Public Procurement Regulatory Agency (ESPPRA) in their website. The intention to award the company was published last week Friday and they are expected to begin executing it after a period of 10 working days, should they not be contested. According to the regulator, EEC was looking for a contractor to supply, instal and commission auto reclosers. The proposed contract price was E8 379 600.01
Worth noting, construction companies in Eswatini dominated the list of awarded contracts, which were afore awarded to foreign companies, small constructions companies which are based in the country have acquired over 10 tenders, which were afore granted to big companies and those abroad.
Preferences
This is in line with the provision and procurement of tenders in the Public Procurement Regulations, which states that local companies will be granted preferences in the evaluation of tenders in public procurement.Tavrida Electric (Pty) Ltd was competing with TENCO (Pty) Ltd for the tender.
The total evaluation score for the three companies were not revealed in the tender document but it was indicated that TENCO (Pty) Ltd failed technical evaluation. EEC was the procuring entity for the tender which was approved by the authority of the board. ESPPRA requested the unsuccessful bidder to submit an application for review with the agency within 10 working days.
“All tenderers who submitted bids are hereby notified that a period of 10 working days is hereby allowed to for submission of any application for review,” said ESPPRA. The agency also mentioned that the tender does not constitute a contract.
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