TMPD tender recommendations came before bid scoring, commission hears

Chairperson and commissioners at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria.

The Madlanga Commission has heard that recommendations for the TMPD-3 tender were made before bids were scored.

Evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson, who is probing suspended Tshwane Chief Financial Officer, Gareth Mnisi, over alleged tender rigging, says this could constitute fraud.

The TMPD-3 tender relates to a multi-million-rand contract for Ad hoc security services at the City of Tshwane and is currently under investigation.

Mnisi is adamant that tender documents were secure despite six of them going missing; he denies allegations of tender manipulation.

Advocate Chaskalson has put it to Mnisi that the scoring process was fraudulent.

“Mr Mnisi, if the recommendation was made on 28th May, and the scoring was done on 29th May, you have a series of members of the BEC who are participating in a fraud. Is that not right? Can’t comment on that. No, you can comment on it. If they made their recommendation on the 28th and only did the scoring on the 29th, the scoring was a complete sham, was it not? I would be making an assumption, because I wouldn’t have known what would have happened in that instance.”

MADLANGA COMMISSION | Suspended Tshwane CFO Gareth Mnisi is responding to questions about the missing tender documents from TMPD. Catch the live broadcast on SABC News. pic.twitter.com/VurJuLeEg7

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