Financial Management of Parliament Act, 2009 (Act No. 10 of 2009)4. Implementation of the Supply Chain Management System |
| (1) | The Accounting Officer must establish a supply chain management function in the parliamentary service that must implement the supply chain management system, comprising the following management processes and procedures, including: |
| (a) | demand management; |
| (b) | acquisition management; |
| (c) | logistics management; |
| (d) | disposal management; |
| (e) | risk management; and |
| (f) | regular assessment of SCM performance. |
| (2) | The Accounting Officer must establish different committees that will, in the case of procurement through a bidding process, consider the following: |
| (a) | Bid specification; |
| (b) | bid evaluation; and |
| (c) | bid adjudication. |
| (3) | The Accounting Officer must ensure that— |
| (a) | a member of the Evaluation Committee is not also a member of the Bid Adjudication Committee; |
| (b) | members of Parliament are not appointed as members of any of these committees or any other committee that may be established and that deals with approving bids, quotations, contracts or other bids for Parliament as required by section 44 of the FMPA; and |
| (c) | members of Parliament are barred from attending any meeting of a committee referred to in paragraph (b) as an observer, as well as being barred from participating in any manner in the evaluation or approval of bids, quotations, contracts or other bids for Parliament as required by section 44 of the FMPA. |
| (4) | The Accounting Officer may establish other committees deemed necessary for the effective processing of bids, quotations and other SCM processes. |