A Guide for Councillors

The Role of Councillors in Municipal Finance Management

Part 5

Check your knowledge:

Tick True, False or Don’t Know 1. A bid committee that approves tenders, quotations, contracts or other bids, is made up of municipal staff only

T F ?

2. Council adopts the supply chain management policy

3. Councillors serve on a bid committee

4. Councillors may observe the bid committee process

5. A municipality may award a contract to a person who works for government 6. Amunicipality must disclose any award of more than R2 000 made to a relative of someone who works for government

7. A municipality should discourage unsolicited bids 8. A tender that has not been recommended by the tender committee can be considered and approved by council 9. Councillors may interfere with the supply chain management system of a municipality 10. Tenders, quotations, contracts or bids may not be changed after they have been submitted

Disclose: To make information public.

Bids: An unsolicited bid is an offer to supply goods or services, that has not gone through the normal bidding process.

5. False 6. True

10. True

7. True 8. False

1. True 2. True

3. False 4. False

9. False

Answers:

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Understanding the Municipal Finance Management Act