The ECDoH received four proposals, and in June 2000, the evaluation committee identified and recommended Afrox as the only compliant and thus preferred bidder. Unfamiliar with the process of procuring PPPs and in the absence of guidelines, the tender board were reluctant to endorse the recommendation, and the project faltered
The legal road authority for Chapman’s Peak Drive being the Provincial Administration Western Cape (PAWC) realised early on in 2000 that financial limitations would be the single biggest stumbling block to the safe re-opening of Chapman’s Peak Drive to traffic. To solve these financial problems the plan was to implement a public private partnership and proclaim the route a Toll Road under the Western Cape Provincial Toll Road Act