Awarded Tender: PRASA KZN machinery & lifting equipment RFQ tender

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Summary

This tender, issued by the passenger rail agency of south africa (PRASA), seeks a service provider to conduct inspection and testing of machinery, lifting equipment, perway, rolling stock, and electrical assets in the kwazulu-natal region for 36 months on an as-and-when-required basis, in compliance with code of practice NO. 29. IT is open to suppliers with valid certifications, registered examiners, and compliance with statutory and prasa-specific requirements.

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What the buyer was looking for

1Inferred operational need

Detailed machine and equipment inspections and testing as per Asset Code 29

Why it matters: This is a qualified operational interpretation of the stored scope, not a stated mandatory or scored criterion.

Inferred from stored analysis; verify against the source document.

Source: KZN-PRASA-2026-02-02-Q.pdf · technical

Known supplier evidence

Tenders-SA records other appointments with overlapping scope terms for EAGLE LIFTING EQUIPMENT.

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Contract Awarded

Award Information

Winning Supplier

The inspection and testing of machinery and lifting equipment for perway, rolling stock and electrical as per code of practce no.29 Used in the KZN region for 36 months on an as and when required basis

Award Details

Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA)

Organization Directors

Awards Won: EAGLE LIFTING EQUIPMENT

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What the tender required and what the award supports

Detailed machine and equipment inspections and testing as per Asset Code 29

3.1 CODE OF PRACTICE No. 29

3.1.1 DEFINITIONS AND DUTIES

3.1.2 EXAMINER (Ref. Old Code 29 Clause B.2.1)

The examiner shall be an artisan or similarly competent person in terms of the Act to undertake the duties

as set out in clause 4.3. Of the administrative instructions of the Code of Practice. He/she will be appointed

as such. (General Machinery Regulation 1. (a), (b), (c), and (d)).

3.1.3 DUTIES OF THE EXAMINER (Ref. Old Code 29 Clause B.4)

The examiner must thoroughly examine all machinery, plant and equipment situated within his defined area

of examination, for defects, deficiencies or wear that affect, or could affect the safe operation of the

machinery, plant, and equipment. He must also ensure that the provisions of regulations promulgated to

ensure the safe operation of machinery, plant and equipment are met.

Note: Where steel structures form part of machinery or plant, the examiner must also thoroughly examine

the structure of damage, cracks, corrosion, or other defects which could affect the safe operation of the

machinery or plant concerned.

The findings of each examination must be entered on the log sheet (or logbook) applicable to the item

examined. The date of the examination and the examiner’s signature must be endorsed on the log sheet.

Note: Where no defects, deficiencies, etc., are apparent the examiner must endorse the log sheet, “in good

order’. The use of ditto or similar inscription marks on log sheets is not permitted.

The examiner and the Supervisor must ensure that log sheets are kept in a good order and arrange for

replacement or repair of any torn or damaged log-sheets. If log sheets are replaced the torn or full log sheets

must be filed in the equipment file.

The Examiner must have in his possession a complete list showing clearly each item of machinery, plant and

equipment examined by him. This list must be updated after every inspection regarding new, withdrawn or

transferred equipment.

Examiners must ensure that machinery, plant, or equipment, which they consider unsafe for use, after

examination, is not used. In all instances where unsafe machinery, plant or equipment is found during the

examination the examiner must endorse the log sheet ‘UNSAFE – NOT TO BE USED” and must advise the

operator that the machinery, plant, or equipment must not be used until repairs are affected.

The examiner must directly after this examination inform both the Operations Manager and the Supervisor

about his remarks on the log sheet and retain their signatures as acknowledgement. The operation Manager

in conjunction with the Supervisor must then ensure that the machinery, plant, or equipment is repaired or

disposed of as scrap.

Where equipment is not available for examination the examiner must endorse the relevant log sheet,

accordingly, stating the reasons, and advises the Supervisor that he has not examined the said equipment.

The Supervisor must then immediately inform the Operations Manager in his capacity as user of the

unavailability of the equipment. The responsibility then rests with the Operation Manager in his capacity as

user to take the necessary action to ensure the safety of the relevant equipment.

The examiner must be registered with the engineering council of South Africa and has successfully completed a

trade in the examining and testing of all the relevant equipment listed below. Proof to be submitted upon request.

Proof of calibration of testing equipment must be available upon request.

3.1.4 INSPECTOR

The inspector shall be a competent person appointed with the authority, responsibility, and duty to determine

the safety and condition of all machinery, plant, and equipment, audit the related documentation and records

as well as the ability of all the personnel involved with operating, maintaining, examining, and managing it.

3.1.5 COMPETENT PERSON (Act )

This is any person who –

Has served an apprenticeship in an engineering trade which included the operation and maintenance of

machinery or has had at least five years’ practical experience in the operation and maintenance of machinery,

and who during or after such apprenticeship or period of practical experience has had not less than one

year’s experience in the operation and maintenance appropriate to the class of machinery he is required to

supervise.

Has obtained an engineering diploma in either the mechanical or electro-technical (heavy current) fields with

an academic qualification of at least T3 or N5, or of an equivalent level, and who after achieving such

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qualification has had not less than two year’s practical experience in the operation and maintenance

appropriate to the class of machinery he is required to supervise.

Is a graduate engineer who has had not less than two years post graduate practical experience in the

operation and maintenance appropriate to the class of machinery he is required to supervise and who has

passed the examination on the Act and the regulations made there under, held by the Commission of

Examiners in terms of regulation GCC Section 2 of the regulations published under Government Notice

R. June 1963: or

Is a certificated engineer?

3.1.6 USER (act )

“User”, in relation to plant or machinery, means the person who uses plant or machinery for his own benefit

or who has the right of control over the use of plant or machinery, but does not include a lessor of, or any

person employed in connection with that plant or machinery.

Note: In a Prasa context the user could be any of the following.

The CEO of Metrorail.

The CEO of the business unit.