H & I Civil & Building (Pty) Ltd and Another v City of Cape Town and Others (59/24)
H & I Civil & Building (Pty) Ltd and Another v City of Cape Town and Others (59/24) [2024] ZAWCHC 329 (18 October 2024)
The court held that the City of Cape Town was lawfully empowered to determine and implement its own preferential procurement policy and scoring system for tenders, provided it acted within the constitutional and legislative framework. The process followed by the City in developing the new scoring system was rational, involved internal consultation and legal advice, and was necessitated by changes in the regulatory environment following the Afribusiness judgment and the 2022 Procurement Regulations. The applicants' arguments regarding procedural unfairness, legitimate expectation, and alleged…
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- Preferential Procurement
- Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment
- Municipal Supply Chain Management
- Promotion Of Administrative Justice Act
- Constitutional Review
- Public Tender Scoring