{"id":171456,"date":"2020-11-09T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/lesedi-municipality-advertises-for-bidders-for-aerodrome-project-despite-project-being-handed-over-to-gifa\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:37:02","slug":"lesedi-municipality-advertises-for-bidders-for-aerodrome-project-despite-project-being-handed-over-to-gifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/lesedi-municipality-advertises-for-bidders-for-aerodrome-project-despite-project-being-handed-over-to-gifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesedi Municipality advertises for bidders for aerodrome project despite project being handed over to GIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lesedi Municipality advertises for bidders for aerodrome project despite project being handed over to GIFA<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Dear Johannesburg<\/p>\n

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng notes with concern, that despite the Heidelberg Aerodrome Project being handed over to the Gauteng Infrastructure Finance Agency (GIFA), the Lesedi Municipality has gone ahead and put out a tender for the project.<\/p>\n

In an advertisement placed in the City Press Newspaper on 11 October 2020, the municipality put out a tender calling for proposals for the design, planning, development and management of the Aerodrome to the value of R80 million.<\/p>\n

In a reply to written questions tabled in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature (GPL), the MEC for Finance and e-Government, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko indicated that GIFA was not involved in the issuing of the tender and referred the question as to why this tender was issued back to the municipality.<\/p>\n

It is concerning that the municipality has gone ahead and advertised for proposals for the Aerodrome when the process for the procurement for this project was legally handed over to GIFA through a resolution of Council.<\/p>\n

It would appear that despite this being done, this government entity and the municipality does not know what the other is doing when it comes to this project.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, no budget has been set aside for this project as a feasibility study must still be completed according to the MEC.<\/p>\n

This parallel process of obtaining proposals for the development of the Aerodrome by the municipality is wrong and is a waste of taxpayers\u2019 money, considering that another entity has been given the mandate to run the project.<\/p>\n

In addition, the DA has always maintained that municipalities should not rely on GIFA to run their projects as this entity has a history of not completing projects on time. Projects like this should be run by the municipality.<\/p>\n

However, we cannot have a situation where a project has been handed over to GIFA but is still being advertised by the municipality for possible bidders as this is a duplication of services.<\/p>\n

I will be tabling further questions through the municipality to ascertain what informed this process, who has paid for the placement of the advert and why there is a parallel process being run.<\/p>\n

Regards<\/p>\n

Adriana Randall MPL<\/strong>
DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Finance and e-Government<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lesedi Municipality advertises for bidders for aerodrome project despite project being handed over to GIFA: Dear Johannesburg The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng notes with concern, that despite the Heidelberg Aerodrome Project being handed over to the Gauteng Infrastructure Finance Agency (GIFA), the Lesedi Municipality has gone ahead and put out a tender for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[39428,39429,6164,28197,9153,39430,21467,9493,77,2296,3682],"class_list":{"0":"post-171456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-advertises","8":"tag-aerodrome","9":"tag-being","10":"tag-bidders","11":"tag-despite","12":"tag-gifa","13":"tag-handed","14":"tag-lesedi","15":"tag-municipality","16":"tag-over","17":"tag-project","18":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}