GERMAN TENDERS
REJECTED BY DURBAN UNANIMOUS DECISION JOHANNESBURG, July 21. Fourteen German tenders for the supply of telephone cable of various types and sizes have been unanimously rejected by the Durban Municipal Tender Board. They were all to specification and the prices were lowest. The German tenders were rejected in favour of British tenders, despite the fact that in one instance the German price was 55 per cent, lower and in others 37 per cent., 31 per cent, and 20 per cent, lower. The recommendation of the Tender Board, which has to be confirmed by the City Council, means that the corporation will have to pay £2065 instead of £1757 for cable.
In each case, the telephone manager, Mr J. W. Roxburgh, recommended the lowest tender " as it is in order and in view of the fact that the lowest British offer is not within 10 per cent, of this figure." In the past the council has always given a preference of 10 per cent, to British goods. In one instance the German tender was £lOl and the British tender £157.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23894, 23 August 1939, Page 10
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