Government procurement and BEE

I'm warming to the regulations.  I wrote an article for the Star Workplace last week and I concluded that the current status quo should remain.  I stand by this in the sense that there were certain facilities within the old regulations that could help regional businesses etc.  These do need to be incorporated back into

I was chatting to Hendri Pelser of Gauteng Business about a new policy that has been adopted (or mooted) by the Tshwane Municipality.  The significant section is 3.2.1A on page two and it refers to quotations for goods and services up to the value of R10,000.  It says Quotations must only be obtained from vendors

I tend to use the blog as a repository for ideas for future articles or my next book.  This post is the beginning of an idea that I have that will turn into something bigger in the future.  And today’s topic is Where do BEE and the PPPFA connect and how can I bitch about

I make use of Google alerts.  You type in a keyword and it will send you an email on a daily basis telling you about any sites that talk about the subject you are interested in.  It’s really good for marketing departments and PR companies.  One of my keywords is the PPPFA (Preferential Procurement Policy

The July 2006 issue of Enterprise Magazine (which I found very recently) has "set asides abolished" emblazoned on the cover page.  The story tells us that the Treasury had given a directive to government preventing them from using set asides in the tender process.  The reason behind this is contained in the directive.  It all

I was asked by Sandy Pullinger of nFold to sit on a panel discussing procurement.   I had the privilege of meeting some very fine people, Steve Fitzpatrick from Inathi and Terry White of Marketworks are but two.    My specific interest is government tender regulations – I’ve attached my presentation.  Terry and Steve come from

The warning bells had been sounding for a while.  I blogged about the national lottery a few months’ ago.  The Business Day reported today that the decision for the tender for the national lottery was set-aside, and the minister was asked to review the procedure.  "Judge Willie Seriti found that the process followed by the

Uthingo‘, the former national lottery operator, lost the tender to continue operating the lottery.  The winner was the very controversial Gidani consortium.  There have been numerous reports, articles, blogs and other types of correspondence about the awarding of this tender.  In fact this whole process is a text book understanding of how government procurement is

I have been watching the government and its approach to broad-based BEE for a while and it is pleasing to note that it is making some headway in the conversion to BBBEE from the old narrow based system.  There are two examples: New Employment Equity codes of good practice (August 06) The definition of black