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<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> Presidents<br><br><br><br><br><br> Report<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> Sustaining Consulting<br><br><br> Engineering is Key to Growing<br><br><br> ABE THELA<br> Nyeleti Consulting Engineers the Economy<br> CESA President<br><br><br><br><br> he National Development Plan (NDP) was concrete elements coming out of the revision process<br> created in order to develop the South Africa’s is that the new procurement regulations will separate<br> Teconomy. Government through the NDP the procurement of our services (together with that of<br> has identified infrastructure development as key those involved in infrastructure planning and design<br> to the socio economic development of the country. as well as implementation) from the procurement of<br> Throughout this year as I travelled to all 11 of our general goods and services. This is one battle we have<br> regions I stated that the NDP and its objectives will won in the war of a fair and transparent procurement<br> never come to fruition unless there is involvement approach to our services which will result in a thriving<br> of consulting engineers at the forefront of this and sustainable consulting engineering sector.<br> development. Consulting Engineering, although a However, the bigger battle of introducing functionality,<br> relatively small sector, has a large multiplier effect as part of procurement points scoring alongside<br> on the development of infrastructure as we are the price and preference points, is still be fought. It<br> designers that create the large scale infrastructure was encouraging that all professions in our sector<br> projects that employ large numbers of people during together with technocrats in Government supported<br> the construction, operation and maintenance phases this proposal. There are however variances in this<br> of infrastructure. proposal such as the inclusion of points for targeted<br> enterprise development in the point scoring formula.<br> The procurement of consulting engineering services<br> The debate is ongoing.<br> took centre stage in our 2014 Presidential theme<br> Sustaining Consulting Engineering is Key to Growing We continued to play a crucial role in the Presidential<br> Infrastructure Task Team of the Gov/Bus bilateral<br> the Economy. We have made presentations to<br> CESA Annual Review 2013 / 2014 Team on how CESA believes the procurement of efficient business engagement with Government.<br> various Government institutions including National<br> created by President Jacob Zuma to engage private<br> Treasury and the Presidential Infrastructure Task<br> sector on solutions to hindrances to the effective and<br> A meeting with the President, for private sector<br> consulting engineering services should be carried<br> out. Our official position on procurement of consulting<br> to present these proposals which includes the<br> procurement of our services, is still awaited.<br> engineering services is for functionality points to be<br> included in the calculation of bid evaluation points<br> While we wait for the regulations to be repealed we,<br> alongside points for price and preference.<br> as a sector, also have a responsibility to ensure that<br> process of revising procurement regulations. So far the<br> regulations can do so much and the rest is entirely<br> 4 I am happy to report that National Treasury is in the the procurement process is fair and transparent. The<br>
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