Volunteer in your community

Volunteering is a way to give back to your community and helps you grow and learn.

The City of Cape Town needs volunteers to help make our city great!

Here are some ideas to get you started:

Disaster Risk Management volunteers help out when there is a natural or man-made disaster (e.g. floods, droughts, storms, shack fires), but they also assist with first aid, education and awareness programmes, crowd management at big events, and more.

Each year, volunteers help with community programmes and events hosted by the Recreation and Parks Department.

Volunteers in the Community Gardens Project improve previously neglected areas in parks and public open spaces by creating beautiful gardens. City Parks helps these volunteers with the design and preparation of the site as well as basic infrastructure and training.

Volunteer Wildfire Services is a volunteer-run organisation that helps the City’s Fire and Rescue Service and the Disaster Risk Management Team. You can also volunteer to be a reservist firefighter.

Volunteer in our libraries volunteers work in the library, fundraising, help with library, host talks and book launches, developing programmes for children and youth, helping with holiday programmes, holding events like reading competitions and career exhibitions, and more.

My Clean Green Home design competition

Congratulations to Team Mahali , who won first place in the My Clean Green Home  design competition.

The net zero carbon home is on display in  Green Point Park .

" The design is inspired by the typical African tradition of community formal and informal gatherings under an expansive tree canopy. The design tries to recreate the communal space by creating a courtyard-like space between two more private spaces for sleeping and living ," said team leader, Sharné Bloem.

More about the Programme

Engineering professionals within the City specialise in a variety of disciplines including electrical, water, civil, transport and chemical engineering.

City engineering teams:

• Have a high level of integrity
• Identify and resolve risks, and improve efficiency of services
• Have a high degree of responsibility
• Have a collaborative work style
• Enjoy a highly teamwork-oriented environment
• Are solution-oriented and outcome-driven
• Translate situations into sustainable solutions

As a new graduate you will be working in teams with highly skilled mentors and exposed to complex challenges and technologies. You will be required to apply your academic knowledge to functions, projects and processes and come up with innovative solutions which ultimately benefit all the citizens of Cape Town.

Bid for a tender

Step 1: To bid for a tender, first collect the hard copy documents from the Supply Chain Management offices at the Civic Centre or download a copy. The hard copy tender documents must be collected from:

Tender and Quotation Boxes
2nd Floor (Concourse Level)
Civic Centre
12 Hertzog Boulevard
Cape Town

If you have not registered online, the desk clerk will assist you with registering your company or business when you collect the tender documents. The City of Cape Town keeps a record of persons collecting or downloading tender documents so that it can send you other information about the tender (if necessary).  

Step 2: Once you have collected the hard copy documents, or have downloaded them, you can begin drawing up your bid according to the requirements specified in the tender document.

The tender documents form an important part of the final decision process. You are not permitted to change anything in your bid after the closing date or after a tender has been awarded to you. It is critical to the success of your bid that you complete all your documents correctly and in full - failure to do so may result in your bid being excluded from the process. You are only allowed to submit a bid using the tender document provided.

Step 3: Make sure your bid isn’t rejected due to the past behaviour of your business’s directors, members or partners.

Your bid may be rejected if your business, its directors, members or partners:

• is behind on their service charges, municipal rates or taxes for more than three months;
• was given written notice for unsatisfactory work on a previous contract with the City;
• has committed fraud when bidding for a previous tender; or
• appears on National Treasury’s list of tender defaulters or National Treasury’s database of restricted suppliers or are restricted from doing business with the City of Cape Town in terms of its policy provisions relating to combating abuse of the supply chain management system.

Step 4: Check that your bid is free of errors to avoid rejection. Common bidding errors include:

• incomplete or missing documents;
• incorrect prices or incomplete prices;
• not following the instructions of the tender document;
• misinterpreting the requirements of the tender;
• not following legal procedures;
• bids handed in late or placed in the wrong box; or
• signatures in the wrong places.

Step 5: The bid documentation must contain all of the following documentation:

• The full name of the person handing in the bid.
• The ID number or company or other registration number.
• The bidder’s tax reference number and VAT registration number.
• Proof of tax compliance from SARS (South African Revenue Services) and PIN.
• All of the documents listed in step 2.

If you are delivering the bid, be sure to include your full name and contact details on all of the bid documents as the City of Cape Town will only communicate with the person whose name appears on the bid documents.

Usually you do not have to attend any site inspections or clarification meetings.  If such meetings are compulsory for a specific tender, the tender document and advert will clearly state so.

Step 6: Deliver your bid in a separate, sealed envelope. Each bid must be in writing, using non-erasable ink, and must be submitted on the official form or tender document.

Step 7: The complete bid document must be delivered to:

Tender and Quotation Boxes
2nd Floor (Concourse Level)
Civic Centre
12 Hertzog Boulevard
Cape Town.

Step 8: You may be present for the public opening of the tenders, which takes place as soon as is practical after closing time. An official will announce the bids received for a specific tender. 

You cannot submit a bid by email, fax or other electronic means. It has to be delivered and placed in the correct tender box.  Contact the relevant official as indicated on the tender document if you have any questions about submitting your bid. Tenders that meet all the tender conditions are scored based on their price and B-BBEE level of contribution and the award is made to the tenderer who scores the highest adjudication points out of 100.

In limited circumstances, the City is legally permitted to award the tender to a tenderer who did not score the highest adjudication points.

All bidders will be notified in writing of the tender having been awarded.

Noise disturbance vs. nuisance

A Noise disturbance is a louder type of noise which can be measured.

Examples may include:

• Amplification such as music, nightclubs, public events and public address (PA) systems (e.g. microphones or loudspeakers).
• Machinery such as industrial noise, extractor fans, power tools etc.

A noise disturbance is measured to exceed the allowable legal noise limits. A decibel reading will need to be taken to enforce noise control.

This type of noise should be reported to Environmental Health Specialised Services. Find out how below.

A noise nuisance means any sound which impairs or may impair the convenience or peace of a reasonable person. Unlike a noise disturbance, it may not exceed the allowable noise limit, but may be repetitive or constant noise.

Examples may include:

• Sporadic noise such as a sparking electric fence; slamming doors; sliding gates etc.
• Intermittent noise such as house parties; alarms; domestic disputes etc.
• Unamplified noise such as human voice (shouting, screaming)
• Animal noise (e.g. dogs barking, whimpering or fighting or a rooster crowing.)
• Any other nuisance noise

This type of noise can be reported to Law Enforcement or to your local Environmental Sub District. Find out how below.

For more information on the types of noise, see our What Is Noise Handbook.

Download the SOP below for more information on how we regulate complaints relating to noise nuisances and noise disturbances.

Bid for a tender

Step 1: To bid for a tender, first collect the hard copy documents from the Supply Chain Management offices at the Civic Centre or download a copy. The hard copy tender documents must be collected from:

Tender and Quotation Boxes
2nd Floor (Concourse Level)
Civic Centre
12 Hertzog Boulevard
Cape Town

all of the information required in your bid (if you fail to include information or documentation you might be excluded from the process)

Step 3: Make sure your bid isn’t rejected due to the past behaviour of your business’s directors, members or partners.

Your bid may be rejected if your business, its directors, members or partners:

• is behind on their service charges, municipal rates or taxes for more than three months;
• was given written notice for unsatisfactory work on a previous contract with the City;
• has committed fraud when bidding for a previous tender; or
• appears on National Treasury’s list of tender defaulters or National Treasury’s database of restricted suppliers or are restricted from doing business with the City of Cape Town in terms of its policy provisions relating to combating abuse of the supply chain management system.

Step 4: Check that your bid is free of errors to avoid rejection. Common bidding errors include:

• incomplete or missing documents;
• incorrect prices or incomplete prices;
• not following the instructions of the tender document;
• misinterpreting the requirements of the tender;
• not following legal procedures;
• bids handed in late or placed in the wrong box; or
• signatures in the wrong places.

Step 5: The bid documentation must contain all of the following documentation:

• The full name of the person handing in the bid.
• The ID number or company or other registration number.
• The bidder’s tax reference number and VAT registration number.
• Proof of tax compliance from SARS (South African Revenue Services) and PIN.
• All of the documents listed in step 2.

If you are delivering the bid, be sure to include your full name and contact details on all of the bid documents as the City of Cape Town will only communicate with the person whose name appears on the bid documents.

Usually you do not have to attend any site inspections or clarification meetings.  If such meetings are compulsory for a specific tender, the tender document and advert will clearly state so.

Step 6: Deliver your bid in a separate, sealed envelope. Each bid must be in writing, using non-erasable ink, and must be submitted on the official form or tender document.

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