Objectives

The primary objective is to procure essential municipal cleaning and water quality testing supplies to support routine sanitation and public health monitoring operations. The tender seeks to engage reliable service providers who can deliver standardized equipment efficiently while complying with national preferential procurement frameworks.

Scope

The tender covers the supply and delivery of two specific items:

• Long Handle Plastic Scoop: 30 units, specifically engineered to pair with long-handle brooms.
• DPD Free Chlorine Sachets: 10 units (packs containing 100 individual sachets each, 10ml capacity), intended for field-based water chlorination testing.

All goods must be delivered in accordance with municipal operational schedules and quality standards.

Technical Requirements

• Supplied items must strictly match the described specifications, quantities, and packaging formats.
• Tender pricing must remain valid for a minimum of thirty (30) days from the submission date.
• All submissions must be completed electronically via the designated online portal; fax submissions will be automatically rejected.
• Bidders must achieve successful registration on the municipal Supplier Database prior to contract award.
• Full compliance with the General Conditions of Tender, Conditions of Purchase, and the Preferential Procurement Regulations of 2022 is mandatory.

Skills Requirements

No specialized technical, engineering, or professional qualifications are required. Bidders must demonstrate standard supply chain, inventory management, and logistics capabilities to ensure timely procurement and delivery of commercial-grade cleaning and testing materials. Basic familiarity with municipal procurement compliance processes and vendor registration procedures is expected.

Explanation of Unusual or Complicated Terms

• DPD Free Chlorine: A standardized chemical testing kit used to measure residual chlorine levels in drinking water or treated water systems. The specification refers to a specific reagent formulation packaged in single-use sachets for rapid field analysis.
• 80/20 System: A preferential procurement scoring model where eighty percent of evaluation points are awarded based on price competitiveness, and twenty percent are allocated toward historical transformation and ownership criteria, as mandated by South African procurement legislation.
• Nelson Mandela Bay Supplier Database: A mandatory centralized vendor registry that all prospective contractors must complete to verify legal, tax, and operational compliance before being eligible for municipal contracts.