ELECTIONS TENDERERS RISK DISQUALIFICATION

MBABANE – The race to rent out election equipment to government for the 2018 elections will be no walk in the park.

This is on the basis that a number of companies could be disqualified for failing to adhere to the requirements set out in the 37-page tender document that the Business Desk has seen.

Out of the companies contesting to be granted the multimillion tender to provide the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC), with an election management solution later this year, an independent analysis by the Business Desk has unearthed that some of the companies did not fully adhere to the requirements.   

Failure to adhere to the set out requirements to proceed to the evaluation stage was also confirmed in a document that was filled in by government employees who conducted the tender opening exercise at the Treasury Department boardroom a fortnight ago, where company representatives and directors waited with bated breath to hear the prices of their competitors.

The companies which showed an interest to provide the service which will be used in the upcoming elections are: Ummo Nic, Digimage, Afri Tech, Slomoes, Datamatics, Pulse Informatical, MC Tech Systems and Edba Investments.

The required documents, some of which were not submitted by the competing companies (see table below), were; general receipt of tender document, copy of current tax clearance certificate, trading licence, form j, form c, labour compliance certificate, Swaziland National Provident Fund (SNPF) certificate and tender security of E20 000.

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