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Urban Planning
Human settlements professionals contract
Agenda #2August 20, 2026
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The Council will consider the awarding of contract 274Q/2024/25 (supplementary term tender for contract 260C/2021/22) for the appointment of four teams of built environment professionals for planning, design, procurement and construction monitoring services relating to human settlements.
The item concerns a "supplementary term tender" (274Q/2024/25) that builds on the earlier framework contract 260C/2021/22. It covers appointing four teams of built environment professionals to carry out planning, design, procurement and construction monitoring services for human settlements in Cape Town. The tender is run by the City's Human Settlements Directorate, in its Housing Development Department. Built environment professionals are people such as engineers, town planners, architects and quantity surveyors. They prepare housing and serviced-site projects, and they oversee contractors' work.
The original contract was awarded in September 2022. It was for four regional teams of multidisciplinary consultants, with a value of about R260.9 million and a term of 84 months. A supplementary tender usually tops up capacity or budget under an existing term arrangement. This avoids running a completely new procurement process for each project.
Under the Municipal Finance Management Act, the City must make public its agreements with external contractors. The contracts are published on its Section 33 tender contracts page. The value and term of contracts like this one decide whether council approval is needed. Council approval is also a transparency safeguard.
The contract matters because consultant teams drive the City's pipeline of housing, informal settlement upgrading and serviced-site projects. Delays in appointing them can slow project delivery. They can also affect how quickly the City spends its human settlements budgets. Cape Town has a large housing backlog and continuing demand for housing.
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