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Procurement activity across Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. The award rate is the share of concluded tenders (awarded plus closed) that resulted in a published contract award.
Driven by the East London SEZ and its port, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality offers significant tenders across roads, water and sanitation, electricity, housing, public transport, waste, community facilities, ICT, security, and industrial consulting. However, the complexity of municipal bids—spanning Bhisho, Qonce, and East London—requires a meticulous approach to technical responses. Tenders SA provides a centralized platform to go from discovery to submission. Our AI Matching Engine identifies Buffalo City opportunities that align with your sector expertise. Our document analysis processes RFQs to flag critical returnables, compulsory site meetings, and functionality thresholds. Leverage procurement intelligence to prioritize the best-fit tenders. With our compliance gap analysis and readiness scoring, you'll catch administrative errors early. Finally, our application assistance helps you compile and organize a complete, compliant submission for Buffalo City contracts.
Cricket south africa npc requires a suitably qualified contractor, supported by an original equipment manufacturer (oem) of the luminaires, to remove the existing condemned floodlights and masts and to design, supply, install, test, commission and verify new led arena floodlighting, new floodlight masts and associated electrical infrastructure at the border cricket grounds (buffalo park stadium) in kugompo city, eastern cape, followed by maintenance of the installation for ten years after completion. The contract will be an nec4 engineering and construction contract (option a) for the works and an nec4 term service short contract for the maintenance, with the maintenance price forming part of the tendered price. Bidders must hold a CIDB contractor grading designation of 8ep or higher, attend a compulsory clarification meeting and site inspection, and pass four evaluation stages including mandatory technical compliance, functionality thresholds of 75% in each sub-stage, a presentation, and final scoring on the 90/10 preference point system.
Submission method: paper only, by hand or courier. Submission address: cricket south africa, 86 5th street, corner 5th street and glenhove street, melrose estate, johannesburg, 2196. Delivery hours: 08h00 to 16h00, monday to friday (excluding public holidays), marked for the attention of the supply chain manager. Closing time: monday, 23 november 2026 at 12h00. Each tender comprises two sealed envelopes: - envelope 1 (technical and compliance): one original and two copies, plus one USB flash drive containing the envelope 1 documents in searchable pdf format and the lighting design files in native format. The USB drive must not contain any pricing information. - Envelope 2 (financial offer): one original and two copies. Both envelopes must be clearly marked with the bid number, tenderer's name, closing date and time, "do not open before closing date and time", and respectively "envelope 1: technical and compliance" and "envelope 2: financial offer". Place both in a single outer package marked "RFP NO. CSA/06/2026-27 – border cricket grounds (buffalo park stadium) floodlighting – do not open before closing date and time" and with the tenderer's name. Envelope 1 must not contain any pricing information (any price, rate, lump sum, fee percentage or total of the prices). Pricing documents (form of offer and acceptance c1.1, Contract data part two c1.2, Activity schedule c2.2, Schedule of people rates and equipment rates c2.3, Maintenance price list c2.4) Are submitted wholly within envelope 2. Life cycle costing (schedule b17) is submitted within envelope 1; IT must not state the prices or the tendered total, and the capital cost line must read "refer to envelope 2". If a copy or the USB flash drive differs from the original, the original prevails. E-mailed, posted, faxed or late tenders will not be accepted. A tender is received only when recorded in the tender register. The tender must be signed by a person duly authorised to do so. Returnable forms and documents (all must be completed, signed and submitted): - schedule a1 to a7: administrative compliance schedules. - Mbd 4 (declaration of interest): discloses whether any director or shareholder is employed by the state or connected to anyone at the procuring institution. - Mbd 6.1 (Preference points claim): claims b-bbee points under the PPPFA 90/10 system. - Schedule b1: proof of CIDB registration, coida letter of good standing, b-bbee certificate or affidavit, registered person's registration, ecsa registration certificates and cvs of responsible engineers. - Schedule b2 to b7: eligibility and oem participation documents, including oem authorisation and undertakings. - Schedule b8 to b17: functionality and technical proposal schedules. - C1.1 Form of offer and acceptance (including schedule of deviations). - C1.2 Contract data part two. - C2.2 Activity schedule. - C2.3 Schedule of people rates and equipment rates. - C2.4 Maintenance price list. Disqualification risks: - NO evidence of attendance at the compulsory clarification meeting and site inspection. - Tenderer or any director/member/partner/shareholder listed on the national treasury database of restricted suppliers or the register for tender defaulters. - Conflict of interest disclosed in schedule a4 or mbd 4 that may compromise the tender process. - Tenderer restricted from doing business with the employer. - Failure to submit both envelope 1 and envelope 2, or including pricing information in envelope 1. - Contravening the communication restriction (contacting any other csa, bcmm, border cricket or professional service provider personnel about this tender). - Submitting more than one tender. - Misrepresenting b-bbee status or any arrangement with the oem, a joint venture member or a subcontractor amounting to a fronting practice. - Failure to achieve minimum thresholds in any evaluation stage. - Failure to respond to a written request for clarification within the time allowed. - Material deficiencies in the tender that cannot be cured by clarification.
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