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The Bill aims to:

- Empower the Minister of Finance to oversee its implementation and administration.

- Create a unified system for fair, transparent, and efficient public procurement.

- Prescribe the award of contracts to disadvantaged businesses and fight corruption.

- Promote transparency, local preference, and finding quicker solutions for disputes.

- Apply its prescripts across most organs of state as listed for implementation.

- Take precedence over any other conflicting law around for procurement processes.

- Establish a Public Procurement Office (PPO) to ensure fair enforcement of the rules.

- Allow the PPO to investigate violations and refer matters for criminal sanction.

- Authorise the PPO to conduct searches without warrants where necessary.

- Empower provincial treasuries to oversee transparent procurement management.

- Direct Accounting Officers to ensure total compliance with the prescribed rules.

- Promote and ensure that all role players avoid conflict of interest.

- Exclude ineligible bidders who will have to provide clear disclosure of interests.

- Prohibit interference in the procurement process including automatic exclusions.

- Protect officials reporting untoward conduct during the procurement process.

- Debar ineligible bidders from participation in the procurement process.

- Prioritize contract allocation to advance disadvantaged groups.

- Allow for set-asides of contracts to favour black people, women and small businesses.

- Apply prequalification including demands for subcontracting to disadvantaged groups.

- Favour businesses that are owned by certain individuals and South African citizens.

- Designate sectors allowing only for locally produced products to be considered.

- Favour bids that will create jobs, develop SMMEs and located in certain prefferred areas.

- Penalise those suppliers who do not comply with any developmental contract term.

- Direct organs of state to use clear methods of evaluation and adjudication criteria.

- Ban conflicted officials from serving on bid committees to prevent corruption.

- Create online portals for bidders to view how the process unfolds.

- Allow for lawful access for investigative purposes and compliance with other laws.

- Allow unhappy bidders to appeal any decision and request a reconsideration.

- Establish an independent Public Procurement Tribunal to reconsider tender decisions.

- Appoint a retired judge to head the Tribunal to review bid awards and debarments.

- Direct organs of state to solve all disputes within 10 days of notification.

- Create a penalty framework including fines and imprisonment for criminal conduct.

- Commence once a date has been set by the President and followed by Regulations.

- Instruct the Minister to report to Parliament within two years on its implementation.

Contact: Gerrit Davids. Lead Advisor | TaranisCo Advisory CC

Mobile. +27 (0) 82 496 1657 E-mail: gerrit@taranisco.co.za

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Next Workshop Dates:

Cape Town: Tuesday 13 August: In-person or online attendance | Time: 09h00-16h00

Johannesburg: Friday 23 August: In-person or online attendance | Time: 09h00-16h00

Durban: Date to be confirmed: In-person or online attendance | Time: 09h00-16h00

Registration Fees:

Online: R2990.00 per person

In person: R3990 per person

Second Delegate: Save 25% on the individual registration fees!

Third Delegate: Save 50% on the individual registration fees!

The Workshop will share what you should know about submitting winning tenders and how not to get disqualified!

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