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Government entities that split a tender into two or more contracts will have to award it to different companies. This is aimed at spreading risk and allowing more bidders to benefit according to a proposed legal.
The changes to the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal (Amendment) Bill, 2020 also propose restricting of the contract price within a 15 per cent range of “engineers estimate” to avoid firms quoting low prices only to do shoddy work.
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