Professional Engineering Consulting Services for the Construction of Umngwenya River Bridge No:4101 (kwesentombi) on Main Road P176 Km 5+100 in the Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality Under the Ladysmith Region

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The National Industrial Participation (NIP) Programme, which is applicable to all government procurement contracts that have an imported content, became effective on the 1 September 1996. The NIP policy and guidelines were fully endorsed by Cabinet on 30 April 1997. In terms of the Cabinet decision, all state and parastatal purchases / lease contracts (for goods, works and services) entered into after this date, are subject to the NIP requirements. NIP is obligatory and therefore must be complied with. The Industrial Participation Secretariat (IPS) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is charged with the responsibility of administering the programme. 1 PILLARS OF THE PROGRAMME 1.1 The NIP obligation is benchmarked on the imported content of the contract. Any contract having an imported content equal to or exceeding US$ 10 million or other currency equivalent to US$ 10 million will have a NIP obligation. This threshold of US$ 10 million can be reached as follows: (a) Any single contract with imported content exceeding US$10 million. or (b) Multiple contracts for the same goods, works or services each with imported content exceeding US$3 million awarded to one seller over a 2-year period which in total exceeds US$10 million. or (c) A contract with a renewable option clause, where should the option be exercised the total value of the imported content will exceed US$10 million. or (d) Multiple suppliers of the same goods work or services under the same contract, where the value of the imported content of each allocation is equal to or exceeds US$ 3 million worth of goods, works or services to the same government institution, which in total over a two (2) year period exceeds US$10 million. 1.2 The NIP obligation applicable to suppliers in respect of sub-paragraphs 1.1 (a) to 1.1 (c) above will amount to 30 % of the imported content whilst suppliers in respect of paragraph 1.1 (d) shall incur 30 % of the total NIP obligation on a pro-rata basis. 1.3 To satisfy the NIP obligation, the DTI would negotiate and conclude agreements such as investments, joint ventures, sub-contracting, licensee production, export promotion, sourcing arrangements and research and development (R&D) with partners or suppliers. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER_TENDER_VER. 23 OCTOBER 2025 T.30