In a drive to provide quality sanitation and restoring people’s dignity, the City of Ekurhuleni has appointed new service providers for the supply of mobile toilets in informal settlements across the City.
Previously disadvantaged areas such as Vusumuzi and Winnie Mandela stand to benefit from this project.
“The City appointed all 15 qualifying service providers that met all the conditions of the bid out of a total of 229 applications. The intention was to appoint a maximum of 20 but only the 15 qualified and thus were all appointed. This followed after an inspection was undertaken by the City for all bidders that passed the general criteria of the bid to determine that they have capacity in line with the mandatory requirements and the specifications – and they did.
These companies will invoice the municipality as per the rates approved in the bid document, explained the City’s spokesperson, Themba Gadebe.
He further emphasised that it was the responsibility of the bidders to comply with the conditions of the bid.
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“The conditions of the bid stipulated that the service providers must provide toilets for people with disabilities. They must attach the cleaning schedule for all the toilets on the door of each toilet and that they provide the City with a laboratory test certificate for the chemicals to be used in the toilet tanks,” continued Gadebe.
“It is worth noting that when the current administration came into office in 2016, this leadership adopted a ‘PRO POOR’ agenda, which is aimed at ensuring, among others, that our people’s dignity is restored. At the time when the leadership came into office in August 2016, the ratio (toilets vs families) stood at 1 (toilet) :10 (per structure), and it was resolved that this must be improved to 1 (toilet) : five (per structure) – an intervention that has been appreciated by the beneficiaries,” he said.
Gadebe appealed to the communities to always look after the property.
“The City further appeals to communities, beneficiaries and community leaders, among others, to assist the municipality render quality services to the people by reporting vandalism, and anything sinister that may jeopardise the rendering of this service to the people. The City relies heavily on the general public as its eyes and ears for any wrongdoing happening in society,” he appealed.
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