National Treasury publishes the Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management

National Treasury Instructions 

• MFMA Circular No 77, 26 October 2015
  • Published in terms of the Municipal Finance Management Act (Act 56 of 2003)  
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• National Treasury Instruction No 4 of 2015 /2016, 6 November 2015
  • Published in terms of the Public Finance Management Act (Act 1 of 1999, as amended)
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Model SCM Policy

There is a Model Policy document prepared for Municipalities and Municipal entities to use when formulating their own:

• Model Supply Chain Management Policy for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management published as annexure to MFMA Circular No 77, 26 October 2015:
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Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management

• The Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management was published as annexure to MFMA Circular No 77, 26 October 2015:
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Implementation Guidance

National Treasury understands the difficulty for organs of state to successfully interpret instructions and standards that have been published, especially the technically complex elements of the Model SCM Policy and the Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management. To facilitate the understanding and interpretation of these documents, National Treasury, through the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, has partnered with SAICE to produce a dedicated special edition magazine that deals specifically with the implementation of the instructions. 

• Foreword
• Comments from the CBE and CIDB on the SIPDM
• The Civilution Forum welcomes the publication of the SIPDM
• An overview of the Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management
• The separation of the supply chains for general goods and services from those for infrastructure
• Value for money in infrastructure delivery
• Control framework for the planning, design and execution of infrastructure projects
• Guidance for client and delivery teams
• Guidance on portfolio, programme and project management
• Promoting social and economic objectives through procurement
• Procurement strategy
• Framework agreements
• Infrastructure procurement system
• Infrastructure contracts and contract management
• Procurement documents for infrastructure projects
• Approaches to dealing with “functionality” and “quality” in the evaluation of tender offers

We have been graciously granted permission to publish these articles in the context of our supporting role in the roll out of the National Treasury instructions and the Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management.