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Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has received a fleet of operational vehicles and cable faults locators.
Speaking during the handover ceremony ZESA executive chairman Sydney Gata said due to the deterioration of most their vehicles, the company had to rely on hiring vehicles from private players as a short term strategy.
“ZETDC has a gap of 2000 vehicles to reach the optimal fleet size. Most vehicles in the existing fleet have reached end of life. As a short term strategy, ZETDC has been hiring vehicles from individuals”
“As of today we have received 30 operational vehicles and 2 personal issues vehicles for our Engineers as per the contractual obligations,” he said
He further said for the past 10 years there has not been a procurement policy of replacing vehicles but in 2022 a procurement plan has been put in place to mitigate this crisis.
“In the 2022 procurement plan, ZETDC targeted to procure at least one thousand (1000) various operational vehicles.
“The objective of procuring operational vehicle is to improve project implementation and fault attendance turnaround time as our business is centred on customer centricity,” he said .
ZETDC said it has incorporated requirements for additional vehicles to spearhead ZESA/REG project.
“This is a project we have partnered with our counterparts from the Rwanda Energy Group (REG) and we will soon be advising the nation on,”
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