Appointment of Service Provider(s) into a Framework Agreement to deploy security guards on an “as and when” required basis for a period of three (03) years, at the KwaZulu-Natal province.

Sentech Limited is running a competitive process to place one or more service providers into a framework agreement for security guard services, running for three years, in KwaZulu-Natal province. A framework of this kind means suppliers are appointed in advance and then engaged when the issuing body has a requirement, rather than being given one continuous assignment at the outset. The work falls in the services category, so the appointed parties would supply personnel rather than goods or construction. Beyond the arrangement's structure, its duration and the province, the published fields carry very little. They do not state the number of guards required, the sites or premises to be covered, shift patterns or hours, equipment to be provided, vetting or registration standards for personnel, the value of the arrangement, the length of individual assignments, or the qualifications and documents a bidder must submit. The specification, evaluation criteria and submission requirements therefore have to be read from the bid document itself. Anyone weighing a response should treat this page as an alert that the opportunity exists rather than as a basis for pricing or planning a bid.