No short-cuts on tender registration - PPADB
Thursday, October 04, 2012
After a 12-month window period, the PPADB on August 15 invoked a section of its Act requiring that all businesses wishing to bid for central government tenders or otherwise supply government apply for and possess a PPADB registration certificate.
The registration is part of a range of tough supervisory measures on contractors. It is meant to ensure that companies wishing to do business with the government meet the necessary requirements to deliver in the most cost-effective way.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...