Legal Definitions Dictionary

Order 26

Order means an official written order issued for the supply of goods or works or the rendering of a service.

SCC 26

SCC means the Special Conditions of Contract.

Services 26

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.

Supplier 26

Supplier means the successful bidder who is awarded the contract to maintain and administer the required and specified service(s) to the State.

Tort 26

Tort means in breach of contract.

Turnkey 26

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.

Force majeure 25

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.

Local content 25

Local content means that portion of the bidding price, which is not included in the imported content provided that local manufacture does take place.

Manufacture 25

Manufacture means the production of products in a factory using labour, materials, components and machinery and includes other related value-adding activities.

Project site 25

Project site where applicable, means the place indicated in bidding documents.

Purchaser 25

Purchaser means the organization purchasing the goods.

Republic 25

Republic means the Republic of South Africa.

Written 25

Written or “in writing” means hand-written in ink or any form of electronic or mechanical writing.

B-BBEE 24

B-BBEE means broad-based black economic empowerment as defined in section 1 of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act;

B-BBEE status level of contributor 24

B-BBEE status level of contributor means the B-BBEE status of an entity in terms of a code of good practice on black economic empowerment, issued in terms of section 9(1) of the Broad- Based Black Economic Empowerment Act;

bid 24

bid means a written offer in a prescribed or stipulated form in response to an invitation by an organ of state for the provision of goods or services, through price quotations, advertised competitive bidding processes or proposals;

Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 24

Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act means the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003 (Act No. 53 of 2003); as amended by Act No. 46 of 2013; (this was added by us)

Closing time 24

Closing time means the date and hour specified in the bidding documents for the receipt of bids.

Contract 24

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.

Contract price 24

Contract price means the price payable to the supplier under the contract for the full and proper performance of his contractual obligations.