PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT DA BILL

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT DA BILL

• 17 October 2025
• Trade, Industry & Competition
• SA Legal Academy

Democratic Alliance MP Mathew Cuthbert has announced his intention to table a Public Procurement Amendment Bill in Parliament – in anticipation of which input is sought by 16 November 2025. According to a Government Gazette notice also serving as the procedurally required pre-tabling explanatory summary of any proposed new piece of legislation, the Bill will seek to:

• require procuring institutions to develop and implement public procurement policies that contribute towards achieving:
  • constitutional imperatives, and
  • the UN’s 2015 the sustainable development goals
• repeal provisions in the yet-to-be-commenced 2024 Public Procurement Act related to:
  • set asides
  • prequalification criteria for preferential procurement
  • subcontracting as a condition to bid, and
  • the designation of sectors for local production and content, and to
• repeal the 2003 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act.

Please click the links below for more information:

• explanatory summary

• 2024 Public Procurement Act (not yet in force)

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