Definitions. 1. The following terms must be interpreted as indicated: 1.1 “Closing time” means the date and hour specified in the bidding documents for the receipt of bids. 1.2 “Contract” means the written agreement entered into between the purchaser and the supplier, as recorded in the contract form signed by the parties, including all attachments and appendices thereto and all documents incorporated by reference therein. 1.3 “Contract price” means the price payable to the supplier under the contract for the full and proper performance of his contractual obligations. 1.4 “Corrupt practice” means the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of anything of value to influence the action of a public official in the procurement process or in contract execution. 1.5 "Countervailing duties" are imposed in cases where an enterprise abroad is subsidized by its government and encouraged to market its products internationally. 1.6 “Country of origin” means the place where the goods were mined, grown or produced or from which the services are supplied. Goods are produced when, through manufacturing, processing or substantial and major assembly of components, a commercially recognized new product results that is substantially different in basic characteristics or in purpose or utility from its components. 1.7 “Day” means calendar day. 1.8 “Delivery” means delivery in compliance of the conditions of the contract or order. 1.9 “Delivery ex stock” means immediate delivery directly from stock actually on hand. 1.10 “Delivery into consignees store or to his site” means delivered and unloaded in the specified store or depot or on the specified site in compliance with the conditions of the contract or order, the supplier bearing all risks and charges involved until the goods are so delivered and a valid receipt is obtained. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT: GENERAL CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT 1.11 "Dumping" occurs when a private enterprise abroad market its goods on own initiative in the RSA at lower prices than that of the country of origin and which have the potential to harm the local industries in the RSA. 1.12 ”Force majeure” means an event beyond the control of the supplier and not involving the supplier’s fault or negligence and not foreseeable. Such events may include, but is not restricted to, acts of the purchaser in its sovereign capacity, wars or revolutions, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions and freight embargoes. 1.13 “Fraudulent practice” means a misrepresentation of facts in order to influence a procurement process or the execution of a contract to the detriment of any bidder, and includes collusive practice among bidders (prior to or after bid submission) designed to establish bid prices at artificial non-competitive levels and to deprive the bidder of the benefits of free and open competition. 1.14 “GCC” means the General Conditions of Contract. 1.15 “Goods” means all of the equipment, machinery, and/or other materials that the supplier is required to supply to the purchaser under the contract. 1.16 “Imported content” means that portion of the bidding price represented by the cost of components, parts or materials which have been or are still to be imported (whether by the supplier or his subcontractors) and which costs are inclusive of the costs abroad, plus freight and other direct importation costs such as landing costs, dock dues, import duty, sales duty or other similar tax or duty at the South African place of entry as well as transportation and handling charges to the factory in the Republic where the goods covered by the bid will be manufactured. 1.17 “Local content” means that portion of the bidding price, which is not included in the imported content provided that local manufacture does take place. 1.18 “Manufacture” means the production of products in a factory using labour, materials, components and machinery and includes other related value-adding activities. 1.19 “Order” means an official written order issued for the supply of goods or works or the rendering of a service. THE NATIONAL TREASURY: Republic of South Africa 1.20 “Project site,” where applicable, means the place indicated in bidding documents. 1.21 “Purchaser” means the organization purchasing the goods. 1.22 “Republic” means the Republic of South Africa. 1.23 “SCC” means the Special Conditions of Contract. 1.24 “Services” means those functional services ancillary to the supply of the goods, such as transportation and any other incidental services, such as installation, commissioning, provision of technical assistance, training, catering, gardening, security, maintenance and other such obligations of the supplier covered under the contract. 1.25 “Supplier” means the successful bidder who is awarded the contract to maintain and administer the required and specified service(s) to the State. 1.26 “Tort” means in breach of contract. 1.27 “Turnkey” means a procurement process where one service provider assumes total responsibility for all aspects of the project and delivers the full end product / service required by the contract. 1.28 “Written” or “in writing” means hand-written in ink or any form of electronic or mechanical writing. 2.
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Definitions. 1. The following terms must be interpreted as indicated: 1.1 “Closing time” means the date and hour specified in the bidding documents for the receipt of bids. 1.2 “Contract” means the written agreement entered into between the purchaser and the supplier, as recorded in the contract form signed by the parties, including all attachments and appendices thereto and all documents incorporated by reference therein. 1.3 “Contract price” means the price payable to the supplier under the contract for the full and proper performance of his contractual obligations. 1.4 “Corrupt practice” means the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of anything of value to influence the action of a public official in the procurement process or in contract execution. 1.5 "Countervailing duties" are imposed in cases where an enterprise abroad is subsidized by its government and encouraged to market its products internationally. 1.6 “Country of origin” means the place where the goods were mined, grown or produced or from which the services are supplied. Goods are produced when, through manufacturing, processing or substantial and major assembly of components, a commercially recognized new product results that is substantially different in basic characteristics or in purpose or utility from its components. 1.7 “Day” means calendar day. 1.8 “Delivery” means delivery in compliance of the conditions of the contract or order. 1.9 “Delivery ex stock” means immediate delivery directly from stock actually on hand. 1.10 “Delivery into consignees store or to his site” means delivered and unloaded in the specified store or depot or on the specified site in compliance with the conditions of the contract or order, the supplier bearing all risks and charges involved until the goods are so delivered and a valid receipt is obtained. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT: GENERAL CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT 1.11 "Dumping" occurs when a private enterprise abroad market its goods on own initiative in the RSA at lower prices than that of the country of origin and which have the potential to harm the local industries in the RSA. 1.12 ”Force majeure” means an event beyond the control of the supplier and not involving the supplier’s fault or negligence and not foreseeable. Such events may include, but is not restricted to, acts of the purchaser in its sovereign capacity, wars or revolutions, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions and freight embargoes. 1.13 “Fraudulent practice” means a misrepresentation of facts in order to influence a procurement process or the execution of a contract to the detriment of any bidder, and includes collusive practice among bidders (prior to or after bid submission) designed to establish bid prices at artificial non-competitive levels and to deprive the bidder of the benefits of free and open competition. 1.14 “GCC” means the General Conditions of Contract. 1.15 “Goods” means all of the equipment, machinery, and/or other materials that the supplier is required to supply to the purchaser under the contract. 1.16 “Imported content” means that portion of the bidding price represented by the cost of components, parts or materials which have been or are still to be imported (whether by the supplier or his subcontractors) and which costs are inclusive of the costs abroad, plus freight and other direct importation costs such as landing costs, dock dues, import duty, sales duty or other similar tax or duty at the South African place of entry as well as transportation and handling charges to the factory in the Republic where the goods covered by the bid will be manufactured. 1.17 “Local content” means that portion of the bidding price, which is not included in the imported content provided that local manufacture does take place. 1.18 “Manufacture” means the production of products in a factory using labour, materials, components and machinery and includes other related value-adding activities. 1.19 “Order” means an official written order issued for the supply of goods or works or the rendering of a service. THE NATIONAL TREASURY: Republic of South Africa 1.20 “Project site,” where applicable, means the place indicated in bidding documents. 1.21 “Purchaser” means the organization purchasing the goods. 1.22 “Republic” means the Republic of South Africa. 1.23 “SCC” means the Special Conditions of Contract. 1.24 “Services” means those functional services ancillary to the supply of the goods, such as transportation and any other incidental services, such as installation, commissioning, provision of technical assistance, training, catering, gardening, security, maintenance and other such obligations of the supplier covered under the contract. 1.25 “Supplier” means the successful bidder who is awarded the contract to maintain and administer the required and specified service(s) to the State. 1.26 “Tort” means in breach of contract. 1.27 “Turnkey” means a procurement process where one service provider assumes total responsibility for all aspects of the project and delivers the full end product / service required by the contract. 1.28 “Written” or “in writing” means hand-written in ink or any form of electronic or mechanical writing. 2. Application 2.1 These general conditions are applicable to all bids, contracts and orders including bids for functional and professional services (excluding professional services related to the building and construction industry), sales, hiring, letting and the granting or acquiring of rights, but excluding immovable property, unless otherwise indicated in the bidding documents. 2.2 Where applicable, special conditions of contract are also laid down to cover specific goods, services or works. 2.3 Where such special conditions of contract are in conflict with these general conditions, the special conditions must apply. THE NATIONAL TREASURY: Republic of South Africa 3. General 3.1 Unless otherwise indicated in the bidding documents, the purchaser must not be liable for any expense incurred in the preparation and submission of a bid. Where applicable a non-refundable fee for documents may be charged. 3.2 Invitations to bid are usually published in locally distributed news media and on the municipality/municipal entity website. 4. Standards 4.1 The goods supplied must conform to the standards mentioned in the bidding documents and specifications. 5. Use of 5.1 The supplier must not, without the purchaser’s prior written contract consent, disclose the contract, or any provision thereof, or any documents specification, plan, drawing, pattern, sample, or information and furnished by or on behalf of the purchaser in connection information therewith, to any person other than a person employed by the inspection supplier in the performance of the contract. Disclosure to any such employed person must be made in confidence and must extend only so far as may be necessary for purposes of such performance. 5.2 The supplier must not, without the purchaser’s prior written consent, make use of any document or information mentioned in GCC clause 5.1 except for purposes of performing the contract. 5.3 Any document, other than the contract itself mentioned in GCC clause 5.1 must remain the property of the purchaser and must be returned (all copies) to the purchaser on completion of the supplier’s performance under the contract if so required by the purchaser. 5.4 The supplier must permit the purchaser to inspect the supplier’s records relating to the performance of the supplier and to have them audited by auditors appointed by the purchaser, if so required by the purchaser. 6. Patent Rights 6.1 The supplier must indemnify the purchaser against all third-party claims of infringement of patent, trademark, or industrial design rights arising from use of the goods or any part thereof by the purchaser. 6.2 When a supplier developed documentation / projects for the municipality / municipal entity, the intellectual, copy and patent rights or ownership of such documents or projects will vest in the municipality / municipal entity. THE NATIONAL TREASURY: Republic of South Africa 7. Performance 7.1 Within thirty (30) days of receipt of the notification of contract Security award, the successful bidder must furnish to the purchaser the performance security of the amount specified in SCC. 7.2 The proceeds of the performance security must be payable to the purchaser as compensation for any loss resulting from the supplier’s failure to complete his obligations under the contract. 7.3 The performance security must be denominated in the currency of the contract, or in a freely convertible currency acceptable to the purchaser and must be in one of the following forms: (a) a bank guarantee or an irrevocable letter of credit issued by a reputable bank located in the purchaser’s country or abroad, acceptable to the purchaser, in the form provided in the bidding documents or another form acceptable to the purchaser; or 7.4 (b) a cashier’s or certified cheque. The performance security will be discharged by the purchaser and returned to the supplier not later than thirty (30) days following the date of completion of the supplier’s performance obligations under the contract, including any warranty obligations, unless otherwise specified. 8. Inspections, 8.1 All pre-bidding testing will be for the account of the bidder. tests and analyses 8.2 If it is a bid condition that goods to be produced or services to be rendered should at any stage be subject to inspections, tests and analyses, the bidder or contractor’s premises must be open, at all reasonable hours, for inspection by a representative of the purchaser or organization acting on behalf of the purchaser. 8.3 If there are no inspection requirements indicated in the bidding documents and no mention is made in the contract, but during the contract period it is decided that inspections must be carried out, the purchaser must itself make the necessary arrangements, including payment arrangements with the testing authority concerned. 8.4 If the inspections, tests and analyses referred to in clauses 8.2 and 8.3 show the goods to be in accordance with the contract requirements, the cost of the inspections, tests and analyses must be defrayed by the purchaser. 8.5 Where the goods or services referred to in clauses 8.2 and 8.3 do not comply with the contract requirements, irrespective of whether such goods or services are accepted or not, the cost in connection with these inspections, tests or analyses must be defrayed by the supplier. THE NATIONAL TREASURY: Republic of South Africa 8.6 Goods and services which are referred to in clauses 8.2 and 8.3 and which do not comply with the contract requirements may be rejected. 8.7 Any contract goods may on or after delivery be inspected, tested or analysed and may be rejected if found not to comply with the requirements of the contract. Such rejected goods must be held at the cost and risk of the supplier who must, when called upon, remove them immediately at his own cost and forthwith substitute them with goods, which do comply with the requirements of the contract. Failing such removal the rejected goods must be returned at the suppliers cost and risk. Should the supplier fail to provide the substitute goods forthwith, the purchaser may, without giving the supplier further opportunity to substitute the rejected goods, purchase such goods as may be necessary at the expense of the supplier. 8.8 The provisions of clauses 8.4 to 8.7 must not prejudice the right of the purchaser to cancel the contract on account of a breach of the conditions thereof, or to act in terms of Clause 22 of GCC. 9.
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