Panel of Professional and Consulting Engineering Services for Period of Three (3) years

Makana Local Municipality has advertised for a panel of firms to provide professional and consulting engineering services, running for a three year term. The notice is an open request for bid, published through the national eTenders platform. Beyond its title, the material gives almost nothing away. It does not identify the engineering disciplines or categories of work involved, the projects or assignments a panel member might be called on to carry out, the deliverables, the estimated value, or the criteria against which bids will be assessed. It also does not set out what a submission must contain or how it will be evaluated. A firm weighing a bid would need the bid document itself, which is not reproduced here, to judge whether the work suits its capabilities and capacity. The fields supplied cover the identity of the issuing municipality, the subject of the panel and the term; everything else is absent.