- Target:
- City of Tshwane
- Region:
- South Africa
In 2011 the City of Tshwane put out tender CB364/2011 for a team of financial and legal advisers only to suggest “revenue-generating opportunities” for the city.
In March 2012 PEU Capital Partners was appointed to the panel with no reason is given for this appointment.
The City then invited all panel advisers to submit proposals for “off-balance sheet solutions”.
On 11 May 2012 PEU submitted a proposal for not only funding but also managing and administering a project to handle, for the next 8 to 11 years, electricity collection through compulsory use of Smart Meters by all ratepayers.
On 21 May 2012, ten days later, the CoT accepted this proposal and appointed PEU for 8 to 11 years, without public consultation and without putting the project out to tender.
There is no way the original tender CB364/2011 could have covered this project. Moreover, it is gathered from the FQAs that the council has been hastily rewriting by-laws in order to legalise this project.
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We, the undersigned, as residents and rate payers of the City of Tshwane Metro Municipality, object to the proposed contract between the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and PEU as per the reasons set out in the attached memorandum.
The manner in which PEU is being appointed , the lack of proper Public participation, the lack of a distribution licence owned by PEU and the extra cost to the consumer (residents) need to be investigated and alternatives presented before any such contract can be entered into.
We submit that it would drastically reduce the cost if the Municipality ran the project itself, and the infrastructure remained the property of the City of Tshwane.
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The Objection to the contract proposed with PEU by the City of Tshwane petition to City of Tshwane was written by Ward 101 and is in the category Local Government at GoPetition.