(1) Whether he is aware that a certain official (name and details furnished) from the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality wrote to the bid adjudication committee (details furnished) requesting that they use a new form to change their operating procedures in order to ensure that all tenders above R10 million be forwarded to the specified person; (2) whether he is aware that the specified official requested that the new procedure be applied retrospectively to three tenders that have already been adjudicated by the bid adjudication committee; if so, what is his position in this regard?