South Africa has 257 municipalities (8 metros, 44 districts and 205 locals), and every one of them procures continuously: water and sanitation infrastructure, road construction and pothole repair programmes, electrification and street lighting, refuse collection and landfill management, parks and cemetery maintenance, fleet and plant hire, security for municipal buildings, ICT systems, professional services and thousands of small RFQs. Municipal procurement is where most South African SMMEs win their first government contract, because work is scoped locally and advertised close to home.
Municipal supply chain management runs under the MFMA: purchases above R200,000 must go out as advertised competitive bids, written quotations cover the band below, and evaluation follows the 80/20 preference point system (90/10 above R50 million). Bidders need CSD registration (municipalities draw quotation suppliers from it by commodity code) plus a SARS tax pin, B-BBEE documents, municipal rates clearance or lease declaration, and CIDB grading for construction. Compulsory briefings are the norm on infrastructure packages.
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Municipalities operate under the MFMA with a lower formal-tender threshold (R200,000), draw quotation suppliers from the CSD, and require municipal rates clearance from bidders. Otherwise the preference point system and compliance basics match national procurement.
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