The South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) on behalf of Madan Singh Bester & Associates cc invites Joint Ventures between suitably experienced, SANAS accredited laboratories and Targeted Partners for undertaking site laboratory testing in accordance with SANS 3001 for SUB-CONTRACT FOR SITE MATERIALS LABORATORY FOR THE CONTRACT SANRAL N.001-110-2022/1C-SL FOR THE PERIODIC MAINTENANCE (REPAIR & RESEAL) ON NATIONAL ROUTE 1 SECTION 11 FROM HANOVER STATION (KM 20.2) TO MOOIFONTEIN (KM 45.6) AND CONTRACT SANRAL N.001-110-2020/1C-SL FOR THE PERIODIC MAINTENANCE (REPAIR & RESEAL) ON NATIONAL ROUTE 1 SECTION 11 FROM MOOIFONTEIN (KM 45.6) TO COLESBERG (KM 71.9). This project is in the province of the Northern Cape and in the district municipality of Pixley Ka Seme and local municipality Emthanjeni and Umsobomvu and the approximate duration is 10 months, commencing approximately July 2023.

Preferences are offered to Tenderers who comply with the criteria stated in the Tender Data.

The Tenderers will be evaluated on functionality (quality) criteria with a threshold of 60%.

Joint Ventures (JV) shall be required with the Lead Partner being a suitably experienced, SANAS accredited laboratory and the Targeted Partner being a Targeted Enterprise as defined in the tender data.

Only tenders that comply with the following B-BBEE contributor status levels are eligible to tender:

• The Joint Venture shall have a consolidated project specific B-BBEE scorecard of status Level 1 or 2 B-BBEE contributor for every tender
• Lead Partner must have a B-BBEE contributor status level of 1 or 2 or 3 or 4.
• Targeted Partner must have a B-BBEE contributor level of 1 or 2.

TENDER DOCUMENTS

Tender documents are available from Friday, 10 March 2023 at no cost in electronic format downloadable from SANRAL’s website by following the link:

https://www.nra.co.za/sanral-tenders/status?region_id=western

Tenderers must submit, via email, the duly completed Form A1.1 Certificate of Intention to Submit a Tender within seven (7) days from the tender advertisement date.  Failure to submit this certificate would result in the Tenderer not receiving addenda or additional issued information and may result in the Tenderer being non-responsive.

Tender documents will be issued in electronic format in a return email and Tenderers must have access to Microsoft © Word 2007 and Excel 2007 and Acrobat Adobe © 9.0 or similar compatible software.

TENDERER’S MEETING

No compulsory tender clarification meeting will be applicable to this tender.

COMPLETION AND DELIVERY OF TENDERS

The physical address for CLOSING of tender documents is:

SANRAL Western Region

1 Havenga Street

Oakdale

7530

The closing time for receipt of tenders is 11:00 on Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Telegraphic, telephonic, telex, e-mail, facsimile and late tenders will not be accepted.

Tenders may only be submitted in the format as stated in the Tender Data.

Requirements for completing, sealing, addressing, delivery, opening and assessment of tenders are stated in the Tender Data.

Queries relating to issues arising from these documents may be addressed to:

Mr Gerhard Bester

Tel: No 083 680 5575

Fax No.041 365 6476

E-mail: gerhard@msba.co.za