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FIDELITY OUTSMARTS 9 COMPANIES IN E3.6M TENDER

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MBABANE – Fidelity Security Services will already start off 2019 on a good note.

The company has been enlisted as best evaluated tenderer to be granted a E3.6 million tender for the provision of security services at Eswatini Bank (former SwaziBank). The Managing Director (MD) of the bank is Zakhele Lukhele. According to an intention to award that has been issued by the Eswatini Public Procurement Regulatory Agency (ESPPRA), the company managed to outsmart 11 other competing companies for the multimillion job. The security firm’s total evaluation score was 84.6 per cent. It was closely followed by Buffalo Soldiers, which amassed 83.57 per cent. The third best tenderer was Guard Alert whose evaluation score stood at exactly 80 per cent.

Seven other companies had their technical scores below the 70 per cent mark. ESPPRA clarified that the intention to award does not constitute a contract. It was explained that a period of 10 working days would be allowed for the submission of any application for review before the actual contract would be entered into between Fidelity Security Services and the bank.
“The contract award decision does not constitute a contract,” reads the intention to award in part. ESPPRA recently disclosed that about 40 to 50 per cent of the work undertaken by security companies in the Kingdom of Eswatini was not executed in terms of procurement principles as set out in the Public Procurement Act of 2011. However, this is not to suggest that the tenderers for the Eswatini Bank security were the ones being referred to. 

  ESPPRA said the procurement processes used by central government to procure security services and the roles that each of the players were allocated in order for the industry to perform well were questionable. The fact was that in the present procurement process and especially contract management, value for money was neither asked for nor offered and achieved while government’s role in ensuring that this industry meets the requirements remains not emphasised. As a result, the ESPPRA recommended that the Government of Eswatini’s approach to procuring security services needed an overhaul and procuring entities and the industry itself needed urgent assistance in making the reforms necessary to professionalise this industry and ensure that it delivered value for money.

 

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