Tenderscan’s first 1-day workshop on South African Government Procurement Law and Practice will be held at the Riverclub in Cape Town on Thursday 30 September 2010. The focus of the workshop is on the needs of private sector bidders for government tenders.  The presenter of the law sessions is Advocate Johan De Waal - for full agenda, click here.

The workshop costs R3500 per person and bookings are done on our site. You must be registered and logged in to make your booking, so if you are not registered click here to sign up, and if you are registered, please log in. Then click on the link in the left hand sidebar to renew / purchase your subscription, select the Workshop Entry package (bottom of list) and proceed. You can pay by bank deposit / EFT or credit card.

Entrance to the workshop includes a complimentary 1-month subscription to Tenderscan's web service.

For a municipality that bears the name of Chief Albert Luthuli (who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960), the publication of its tender on Friday 18 December 2009 surely represents a low point in its history.  In the Friday 18 December 2009 issue of the Sowetan newspaper, the Albert Luthuli Local Municipality called for tenders from service providers to assist it in complying with the municipal budget & reporting regulations.  The problem is that the compulsory briefing (and the only place that bidders were able to obtain the tender document) was to be held in the municipal manager's boardroom at 10a.m. on Friday 18 December 2009.

This is grossly unfair, making it virtually impossible for anyone to participate in the tender.  We urge all our subscribers and users to take up the matter directly with the municipal manager Mr DR Mango or mayor ES Dhlamini.  They can be contacted by phone: 017-8434000 or by email: mm@albertluthuli.gov.za   Surely such a tender is illegal - we hope that the municipality will publish a correction immediately.

Such a slur on Albert Luthuli's name must not be allowed!