Overview

This course focuses on the important processes needed to submit a compliant bid for a government tender. A must-do course for all people responsible for tender compilation and bid administration!

Now featuring a new step-by-step manual on how to compete the SBDs/MBDs!

Why Should an Individual Attend?

You will be provided with an awareness of all the regulatory requirements pertaining to government tenders as well as how to correctly respond to these in a compliant manner.

Outcomes

Delegates will have an improved contextual framework understanding of the overall bid process for government tenders.

Program Outline

Regulatory and Bid Completion

Key Principles of Tender Management

• How to submit Responsive, Qualified and Valid Bids
• Request for Quotations (Purchases) and Tenders
• The 3 x Tendering Committees
• Closed Tenders Bid Processes
• Unsolicited Bids
• Two Envelope System
• Open vs. Closed Tenders
• Defaulters (Blacklisted Suppliers) & Restricted Directors
• The 90-10- & 80-20-Point Systems
• Firm & Non-Firm Prices
• Tax Clearance Certificates
• Functionality
• Local Production and Content
• Evaluation of Bids
• Adjudication of Bids
• Tender Cancellation and Re-invitation
• Validity Period and Extensions
• Appeals, Objections and Disputes
• Extension of Existing Contracts
• How to Access Tender Reports and Score Sheets
• Conflict of Interest
• Supply Chain Practice
• Collusion Regulations
• Submitting Alternative Offers and Alternative Bids

Correct Application of the 2022 PPPFA Regulations

• Identification of preference point system
• The 80/20 preference point system for acquisition of goods or services with Rand value equal to or below R50 million
• The 90/10 preference point system for acquisition of goods or services with Rand value above R50 million
• The 80/20 preference points system for tenders to generate income or to dispose of or lease assets with Rand value equal to or below R50 million
• The 90/10 preference point system for tenders to generate income or to dispose of or lease assets with Rand value above R50 million
• Criteria for breaking deadlock in scoring
• Remedies to state in cases where bidders misrepresents their claims for points allocated for “Specific Goals”.

Legal Liability in Tenders

• Risk to your business under the General Conditions vs Special Conditions of Contract
• Bona Fide vs Inadvertent Errors in Tender Documents

Who Should Attend?

• Engineers
• Architects
• Project / Construction Managers
• Quantity Surveyors
• Construction Health and Safety
• Contractors / Sub Contractors
• Executives / Senior Management
• Middle Management
• Administrators / Support Staff
• Others: Bid Administrators