2. In or about January 2016 SAA issued a Request for Information (RFI) in the market, inviting interested parties to submit their bids. Fourteen (14) companies responded when the process closed in February 2016. Subsequently, a Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued to the same 14 companies. Only 7 companies responded to the RFP and 2 companies were subsequently disqualified as they failed to meet the critical criteria, being the existence of a valid and current Financial Services Board (FSB) issued licence to the service provider. The 5 companies that remained met all the requirements. SAA decided to award the tender to BnP Capital for scoring highest on both the Pricing and BEE requirements of the criteria. The appointment of BnP Capital as Transactional Advisor was ostensibly in accordance with prescribed procurement processes and the award was made on 20 March 2016.
via www.rdm.co.za
The RFI responses would be interesting to look at. SAA is lying about the pricing - how could a company that cost more than R171m than the nearest competitor win on price. On top of that BnP had lost their FSB licence, I can't see when they lost it but this is material if their licence was suspended before the 20th of March 2016.
I suspect that SAA is playing further into OUTA's hands. Morons, fire the Dud alredy
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