The ANC administrators’ failure to ensure that the city’s fleet is capacitated has seen waste removal in the city cease. In correspondence sent out to service providers the city’s waste management division has indicated that waste removal trucks procured through the CSS46 tender must cease operations.
Mpho Nawa the head ANC administrator is misleading the residents of this city. In a statement to the Rekord he indicated that the CSS46 tender had been extended for a month to allow for the new tender processes. This is a lie, if it had been extended then waste would be collected and not pile up in the streets.
This came after the DA exposed how the tender for the lease of waste removal trucks and other specialist vehicles and equipment would terminate on 31 August.
The new tender that was advertised to replace it closed on 7 July yet the ANC administrators in the city have failed to ensure that it was awarded.
Now they have instead opted to try and rush through a new tendering process. This is abhorrent and reckless act which could see the ANC administrators committing the city into unaffordable contracts as they desperately try and rectify their incompetence while waste piles up in the streets.
Mpho Nawa the head administrator has indicated that he expects the new tender to be awarded in three weeks. This is outrageous, the original tender for this work closed on 9 July and received over 700 bids. What have Nawa and his team of administrators been doing since then?
In a recent statement Nawa indicates the tender had to be re-advertised three times due to a “number of challenges with bid specifications”. This is the height of incompetence as residents must now watch waste piling up in the streets.
The DA has learnt that various service providers in the city have been notified that they have till the close of business today to submit bids on providing services to the city.
This is incredibly concerning as the ANC administrators are clearly scrambling to try and save face and will quite possibly compromise the city’s supply chain processes in order to facilitate new contracts.
The DA is watching this space carefully, once the unlawful ANC administrators are removed from office we intend to investigate all such contracts. Any officials or administrators who are involved in backdoor deals will face severe consequences.
The end of CSS46 tender provided a unique opportunity for the city to evaluate its fleet requirements, assess which vehicles should still be lease and which the city should purchase.
These are decisions which will incur costs that range into the hundreds of millions, they cannot and should not be rushed.