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EEC’S JOB OPPORTUNITY FOR CONTRACTORS

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MBABANE – Companies with strong intentions not to rest on their laurels in 2019, have been presented with a challenge to outsmart other companies into winning a guard houses construction tender.     


Tenders have been invited from suitably qualified service providers to construct guard houses for the Eswatini Electricity Company (EEC). The guard houses will be constructed in eight EEC sites.


Clarified


In the invitation to tender, it was explained that the main objective of this project was to construct guard houses with running water and toilets to be used by the security guards on duty together with EEC employees conducting business on site.
It was clarified that this was in line with the Occupational Health and Safety Act.


“Late, incomplete, telephoned or telegraphic tenders will not be considered,” warned EEC in the documents of the tender whose deadline has been set for January 25, 2019 at 12 pm.


The power utility explained that it acknowledges the fact that it has a duty to protect its assets, not limited to its infrastructures, buildings personnel and monetary-wise, through physical guarding and installation of security systems.


Manning


It was mentioned that the company has engaged security service providers manning all its assets to be safe and secured at all times. The name of the security provider was not divulged.  


The company pointed out that it has an obligation to construct guard houses for all the security guards manning their sites as per the Government of Eswatini legislation Occupational Health and Safety Act of 2001.


EEC also stated that the project manager appointed for the purpose of this particular project is the EEC Security Officer.
Benefits of the guard houses include improvement of the security guards performance and service delivery.


The project will also help provide shelter to the security guards during cold, rainy or sunny weather conditions.
The guards and staff will also have clean water to drink, clean and wash hands.


Challenged


Further, in its quest to be an efficient service provider, EEC also recently challenged companies to come up with a billing system.
The parastatal issued an expression of interest for the custom development of a post paid billing system.


The deadline for submissions had earlier been slated for November 30, 2018 but was shifted to January 17, 2019.
EEC explained that it was looking to work with a suitable and capable company, with a proven record of accomplishment in project management, business analysis, software development, software testing, system deployment and system documentation.


“The company is needed to develop a new billing system that will meet EEC’s current billing functionalities, address existing challenges and develop new functionality that will align with improvements in billing processes,” read the Expression of Interest (EOI) in part.
EEC is a power utility which was formed in 1963 to provide electricity to the Swati nation by sourcing or generating power using the least cost sources of energy. The organisation is led by Meshack Kunene as Managing Director (MD).


Liberalised


The company currently operates in a liberalised market through the Electricity Act of 2007 and the Energy Regulatory Act of 2007. EEC imports 80 per cent of the electricity demand from southern Africa countries through Bilateral Agreements, also from the Day Ahead Market (DAM) in Southern African Power Pool (SAPP).


Locally, the company buys five per cent from one local Independent Power Producer (Ubombo Sugar Limited) and generates the other 15 per cent from its internal power stations.

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