In its April 2016 decision in Afri-Infra (Pty) Ltd v. City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, the High Court of South Africa set aside a contract award for civil engineering services after finding serious flaws in the initial stages of the bid evaluation process. While the complainant requested that the court conduct is own re-evaluation and then grant a substitute order replacing the original contract award with an award to the complainant, the court rejected the request. The court cited the technically complex nature of some of the later stages of the government’s evaluation process as a reason for directing a government re-evaluation rather than granting the substitute order.
