Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003 (Act No. 56 of 2003)

Chapter 11 : Goods and Services

Purchase

(1)	A municipality or municipal entity is not obliged to consider an unsolicited bid received outside its normal bidding process.

(2)	If a municipality or municipal entity decides to consider an unsolicited bid received outside a normal bidding process, it may do so only in accordance with a prescribed framework.

(3)	The framework must strictly regulate and limit the power of municipalities and municipal entities to approve unsolicited bids received outside their normal tendering or other bidding processes.