Staff Reporter THE Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT), the Ministry of Works and Transport (MWT), and the Namibian Police (NamPol) are cautioning the public against scammers who are encouraging individuals and companies to bid for construction tenders in Lüderitz and Oranjemund. “The scam is requesting the said companies to bid for construction of residential...
… Anti-Corruption Commission investigating The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is investigating a case in which the principal of Hermann Gmeiner Primary School in Windhoek allegedly awarded a tender to construct classrooms to a company in which she is a co-owner. The tender was for the construction of six classrooms, a storeroom and toilets, and cost the...
The High Court in Windhoek has thrown out an urgent application over a tender bid by the close corporation Adaptive Building Land Construction in a joint venture with China State Construction Engineering Corporation. This comes after a tender review application by the joint venture was dismissed by the Review Panel on public procurement. The bid...
The Ministry of Finance and Public Enterprises’ review panel has advised the Oshakati Town Council to apply for the blacklisting of a company accused of using false certificates to win a N$7,3-million road upgrading tender. The company, Truth Investments CC, owned by Jafet Mvula, was awarded a tender by the Oshakati Town Council in August...
A Chinese company that submitted an unsuccessful tender bid for the construction of a new head office for the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) has failed with an attempt to get a court interdict to stop the award of the building contract to a rival bidder. The application for an interdict that a joint...
… despite bid being N$447m more than other bidder The Namibia Water Corporation (NamWater) has decided to award a N$935 million tender to a Chinese company to construct a water purification facility at Oshakati, amid concerns that the winning bidder is N$447 million more expensive than one of the competitors. This is according to bid...
A Company supplying antiretroviral medication to the Ministry of Health and Social Services suffered a setback in the Windhoek High Court yesterday, when a tender challenge it lodged against the Central Procurement Board of Namibia, the health and finance ministers and a number of competitors was struck off the court roll. Acting judge Collins Parker...
The Namibian government says it is working on finalising the awarding of the Trans-Kalahari railway tender to connect with Botswana before the end of the year. Minister of Works and Transport John Mutorwa said a thorough report on the progress made will be revealed this week during a workshop to be held at Swakopmund. “Namibia...
The Chinese company Zhong Mei Engineering has taken legal action against the government to stop the award of a N$237 million tender for the construction of the new Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) head offices in Windhoek. Last year, the Namibia Revenue Agency (Namra) accused Zhong Mei of failing to pay corporate taxes in...
By Adolf Kaure. The Swakopmund Municipal Council announced last week that it will start with a public procurement process to invite all recycling companies to recycle the town’s waste. According to the chairperson of the Council’s Management Committee, Blasius Goraseb, an extra N$6.9 million is needed to collect reclaimable items from homes, making it unprofitable...