Appointment of a service provider for the provision of cleaning, kitchen and hygiene services at the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), National Intellectual Property Management Office (NIPMO) and National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) for a period of eighteen months

The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) invites bids for the rendering of cleaning, hygiene and kitchen services at its Pretoria offices, together with the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) and the National Intellectual Property Management Office (NIPMO).

The DSTI offices span five buildings totalling 4 795m² — Building 22 (first and fourth floors, 728.40m²), Building 23 (ground floor, 365.78m²), Building 41 (lower ground to third floor, 2 116.10m²), Building 42 (basement, ground and first floor, 847.02m²) and Building 31 (storage facility, 737.70m²). Cleaning of parking areas is limited to Buildings 31 (24 bays), 41 (26 bays) and 42 (6 bays).

NACI occupies 563.64m² on the first floor of Building 23, and NIPMO occupies 705.71m² on the second floor of Building 22. Parking at both is shared with other tenants and is excluded from the scope.

The successful bidder must provide one supervisor overseeing all three sites, eleven cleaning staff for the DSTI offices, and one cleaning staff member each for NACI and NIPMO. Two of the eleven DSTI staff must be dedicated to kitchen services. Services run 07:00 to 15:30, Monday to Friday, with quarterly deep cleaning over weekends.

Hygiene services are required in Buildings 41 and 42 only, covering 12 bathrooms with 24 toilets in total, including the supply and replenishment of 2-ply toilet paper and hand towels, air freshener, hand soap, seat sanitisers and bin liners, and the disposal of all sanitary materials.

Bids will be evaluated in two phases: functionality (minimum threshold of 60% to proceed) and then price and specific goals on the 80/20 preference point system in terms of the Preferential Procurement Regulations, 2022.