The aim of these Vendor Database Workshops is to ensure that emerging businesses possess the necessary skills to conduct business with the City.

These workshops are conducted in an environment where businesses acquire practical exposure in completing requests for quotations and tenders.

In addition, participants are encouraged to register on the City’s Community Vendor Database for business opportunities to the maximum of R100 000.00

‘The need to support vendors is in line with the City’s commitment to empower and ensure growth for small businesses. After receiving numerous complaints from small businesses that they are unable to secure business opportunities with the City, we have now created the Community Vendor Support programme to create opportunities for contractors in their local communities and wards,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Management, Alderman Grant Twigg.

The workshops will address the following topics:

• How the City and Government tender processes work
• Benefitting from the new Preferential Procurement Framework
• Completing a tender document
• How a tender is evaluated
• Writing a winning tender

A number of these workshops have already taken place during this month, namely, Khayelitsha, Mitchell’s Plain, and Strand and has been attended by approximately 150 local businesses.

The next workshops will be held as follows:

 
‘The City’s aim is to assist small emerging businesses to develop and gain experience so that they are equipped on all levels to eventually be able to tender for larger projects,’ said Alderman Twigg.

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