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Supply Chain
Committee
The Committee met regularly and meetings were
held on 25 February, 15 April, 10 June, 5 August and
28 October 2013.
Fortunately with respect to the revised Preferential
Procurement Regulations promulgated in June 2011
and effective from 7 December 2011, the Minister of
Trade & Industry declined to extend the exemption
beyond 7 December 2012 for the State Owned
Companies (SOCs), which for the first time were
compelled to implement the PPPFA preferential
scoring system.
Interaction and cooperation continued with the
cidb as in previous years however progress was
hampered with the secondment of the Programme
Manager responsible for Procurement & Compliance
to the Department of Public Works. Interaction took
place largely in the following areas:
Professional Services Contract (PSC) – Progress
in having the CESA-led amended PSC approved
CESA Annual Review 2012 / 2013
Wallace Mayne
Manager: CESA Contractual Affairs
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by the cidb has been slow, however after a second
round of comment by the BEPs and the cidb, the
PSC will be work-shopped with the public sector
clients and then hopefully approved.
cidb-BEP MOU – Unfortunately the cidb-CESA
MOU which was very useful in dealing with Client
non-compliance, was cancelled by the cidb in
order to develop and implement a uniform policy
for MOUs with interested organisations.
Integrity Pact – The cidb has abandoned its efforts
in this regard in favour of investigating methods
used by African countries that have successfully
dealt with corruption.
Method IV – The cidb has withdrawn its request
for the re-instatement of Method IV.
Delayed Payment by Public Sector clients – this
problem still bedevils the CESA landscape, and
plans to deal with it unfortunately seem to have
fallen away.
SMEC Consulting Engineers
ArthurTaute -
Chairperson: CESA SCM Committee