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Tender Notice: | The South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) is a company established in terms of the South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Act, (No 7 of 1998).The South African government, represented by the Minister of Transport, is the sole shareholder and owner of SANRAL. The Agency has a distinct mandate – to finance, improve, manage and maintain the national road network (the ‘economic arteries’ of South Africa) and is committed to carrying out its mandate by protecting and preserving the environment through context-sensitive solutions. The South African national road network consists of 22 197 km of roads. This network seamlessly connects major cities, towns and rural areas, supporting economic growth and social development and immensely contributing to job creation in the country. SANRAL adds value to all the developmental initiatives in the fields of transport, education, health, and development of communities. It revels in its role as partners in the development of all South African communities and sees this as closely aligned to our core function. SANRAL makes a significant contribution towards road safety by maintaining and improving our road environment, and by identifying and addressing road safety concerns. The organisation also aligns itself with local and international road safety authorities in order to improve the safety of our road users. The organisation will continue to actively participate in communities across South Africa and support the development of South Africa’s human capital through tertiary institutions and cooperative governance. 2. PURPOSE OF THE REQUEST FOR TENDER (RFT) The purpose of this RFT is to solicit tenders from interested legal firms to enable SANRAL to appoint a panel of attorneys that will provide the Agency with legal services. The required legal services have been categorised into eleven (11) practice areas as set out in the terms of reference contained in paragraph 11 below. This RFT does not constitute an offer to do business with SANRAL, but merely serves as an invitation to bidders to facilitate a requirements based procurement process. 3. B-BBEE PRE-QUALIFICATION CRITERIA Only the following Legal firms will be considered for inclusion on the panel: • Legal Firms that either have a verified B-BBEE contribution between levels 1- 4 and are either Exempted Micro Enterprises (EMEs) or Qualifying Small Enterprises (QSEs);and • Generic Legal Firms that subcontract 30% of the contract value to an EME or QSE that is 51% owned by Black people. 4. TENDER CLARIFICATION MEETING A compulsory tender clarification meeting with the representatives of SANRAL will take place at the SANRAL Head Office at 48 Tambotie Avenue, Val de Grace, Pretoria, (GPS dms (WGS84) 25˚ 44̍ 47.4̎ S and 28˚ 17̍ 23.2E) on 02 February 2018 starting at 11h00. Subject to the conditions of tender, late arrivals will not be allowed to participate in the meeting and their submissions shall be declared non-responsive. 5. TENDER DOCUMENTS Tender documents are available at no cost in electronic format, downloadable from the SANRAL website as well as National Treasury’s eTender website. Tenderers must have access to MS Office 2007 and Acrobat Adobe 9.0 or later and similar compatible software. 6. CONTACT AND COMMUNICATION Enquiries regarding this RFT must be submitted in writing to SANRAL at the following address: Bidding procedure enquiries may be directed to: Attention: Brian Mathebula Email: mathebulab@nra.co.za Fax: 012- 844 8200 7. DEALINE FOR TENDER QUERIES Enquiries in relation to this RFT will not be entertained after 17h00 on 14 February 2018. The enquiries will be consolidated and SANRAL will issue one response and such response will be posted, within two days after the last day of enquiries. All dates and times in this RFT are South African standard time. Any time or date in this RFT is subject to change at SANRAL’s discretion. The establishment of a time or date in this bid does not create an obligation on the part of SANRAL to take any action, or create any right in any way for any bidder to demand that any action be taken on the date established. The bidder accepts that if SANRAL extends the deadline for bid submission (the Closing Date) for any reason, the requirements of this RFT apply equally to the extended deadline. 8. SUBMISSION OF BIDS The closing time for receipt of tenders is 14h00 on 23 February 2018. The tender documents must be hand-delivered to SANRAL’s Northern Region Office, 38 Ida Street, Menlo Park, Pretoria (GPS dms (WGS84) 25˚ 46̍ 39.9 ̎ S and 28˚ 16̍ 29.4̎ E) Telegraphic, telephonic, telex, email, facsimile and late tenders will not be accepted. The bidder(s) are required to submit two (2) hard copies of each file being one (1) original and one (1) duplicate and one (1) CD-ROM with the contents of each file by the Closing date [15 February 2018 at 14h00]. Each file and CD-ROM must be marked correctly and sealed separately for ease of reference during the evaluation process. Furthermore, the file and information in the CD-ROM must be labelled and submitted in the following format: FILE 1 (TECHNICAL FILE) FILE 2 (PRICE & B-BBEE) Mandatory Requirements Pricing Schedule Supporting documents for technical responses. Proforma Letter of Engagement from the legal firm to be concluded at time of receipt of instruction Bidders are requested to initial each page of the tender document on the top right hand corner. Bid Validity Period Responses to this RFT received from bidders will be valid for a period of 120 calendar days counted from the bid closing date. 9. LATE BIDS Bids received after the closing date and time [23 February 2018 at 14h00], at the address indicated in the bid documents, will not be accepted for consideration and where practicable, be returned unopened to the Bidder(s). 10. DURATION OF THE CONTRACT The successful bidders will serve on SANRAL’s panel of attorneys for a period of 3 (three) years. |
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