APPOINTMENT OF A SERVICE PROVIDER FOR ARMED RESPONSE, MONITORING AND DATA COMMUNICATION AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES

The South African Bureau of Standards has issued a request for quotation to appoint a service provider for armed response and monitoring, together with data communication and maintenance work. That grouping is the whole of what the title discloses. The material supplied contains no statement of the sites covered, the equipment or systems involved, the contract term or the deliverables expected, and the source's own description runs to a short reference line only. A supplier weighing whether to respond therefore has nothing to price against and no indication of the evaluation approach. The notice does not say what the appointed provider will actually be required to do, what qualifications or experience a bidder must hold, or which documents a quotation must contain.