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16 COMPANIES FOR E22.5M SCHOOLS STATIONERY TENDER

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MBABANE – Out of 27 companies that had shown interest in stationery tender for public schools, at least 16 have made the cut.

The tender by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is divided into two, with the first lot for printing, packaging and delivery of pupils’ exercise books and stationery packs for public primary schools.  The second lot is for stationery packages for the public primary schools.

At least eight companies in each lot were successful in their bids to offer the services in each of the eight sub-regions. The tender amounts between E330 348.64 and over E3.3 million.

This is as per an intention to award notice which was posted on the Eswatini Public Procurement Regulatory Agency (ESPPRA) website. The information was posted as per Section 45 (3) (b) of the Public Procurement Act No.7 of 2011.

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“Following a competitive bidding process, notice is hereby given that a contract award decision has been reached by the approvals authority.

“The contract award decision does not constitute a contract. All tenderers who submitted bids are hereby notified that a period of 10 working days is hereby allowed for submission of any application for reviews,” reads the posted information in part. According to the tender document, at least 27 companies had submitted applications for what can be dubbed the best business opportunity for printers every financial year. 

Procurement of exercise books and stationery packs for primary schools is a requirement for government since the introduction of free education in the lower level about a decade ago. Notably, the total amount for this tender is almost equal to that of 2011 which was awarded to seven companies. 

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During that year, the MOET had secured E23 million for the procurement of exercise books and stationery packs to primary schools for the year 2011 January. Seven companies had been awarded tenders to supply the stationery and they were specialising in printing. They were awarded tenders to print, package exercise books and deliver stationery packs to all primary schools before the schools re-opened in January 2011.

Meanwhile, about three years ago this tender was in the spotlight after  it went for re-tender after a separation of the printing, packaging and delivery of pupils’ exercise books and supply of stationery packs for all public primary schools in eight sub-regions in December 2017. Tender invitations had been issued by the ministry, calling upon stationery suppliers to submit applications to supply and deliver pupils’ stationery sets for public primary schools only. Printers were also separately invited for printing and delivery of exercise books. The tender invitation published in May 2017 was different to the initial one advertised in April of the same year, which had combined both the supply of stationery sets and printing of exercise books.

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