Oracle faces blacklisting in South Africa over botched R822-million IFMS tender

[Jan]

American tech titan faces South African blacklisting over botched R822-million tender

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it has begun the process to blacklist Oracle, blocking the company from doing business with the government.

This follows the conclusion of the SIU’s investigation into the R822 million Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) contract that National Treasury awarded in 2015.

 

[TelkomUseless]

Just give Cyril and co some couch money.. and the problem will go away.

 

[zolly]

American tech titan faces South African blacklisting over botched R822-million tender

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it has begun the process to blacklist Oracle, blocking the company from doing business with the government.

This follows the conclusion of the SIU’s investigation into the R822 million Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) contract that National Treasury awarded in 2015.

This seems more of a political thing? Why blacklist Oracle for a botched project. Make them redo it for free.

 

[lkpat]

American tech titan faces South African blacklisting over botched R822-million tender

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it has begun the process to blacklist Oracle, blocking the company from doing business with the government.

This follows the conclusion of the SIU’s investigation into the R822 million Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) contract that National Treasury awarded in 2015.

Hold on, they can name Oracle, but “unnamed senior Treasury officials” get a free ride?
Why am I not surprised? And where was Gordon all this time?

 

[Major Boredom]

Will believe this when I see it. Most gov departments are using oracle products.
But I agree their pricing is criminal

 

[gregmcc]

How can they blacklist Oracle. I'm sure most of gov't run on Oracle. Will be funny if they do and everything stops working

 

[SauRoNZA]

This seems more of a political thing? Why blacklist Oracle for a botched project. Make them redo it for free.

Yeah I also can’t understand how these things just get written off and started again by someone else.

Surely there are contracts and SLA’s in place to deliver specific work.

 

[The_Rolling_Giant]

Contracts? SLA's? BEE/BBEEE trumps everything.

 

[Fuzzbox]

And the government is absolutely blameless in this matter.
Oracle will stop support immediately.
Then we will see what doesn't work anymore.

So when is the Microsoft tender for SOLITAIRE going to be renewed.

 

[The_Rolling_Giant]

Oracle will stop support immediately.

That will be real fun... wonder if ESKOM uses Oracle?

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

That will be real fun... wonder if ESKOM uses Oracle?

They do. Extensively.

 

[Roo!]

That will be real fun... wonder if ESKOM uses Oracle?

Yep, these articles were from 3 years ago:

Eskom warns of “catastrophic consequences” in battle with Oracle

Eskom has warned that South Africa can be plunged into total darkness if Oracle is not stopped from withdrawing its services because of a payment dispute.

mybroadband.co.za

Oracle cuts Eskom IT support

Software giant Oracle has cut Eskom off from essential technical services the utility has previously said were crucial to its operations.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

They do. Extensively.

how do you know this?

 

[DapperDanMan]

HOW DID THEY NOT SEE THIS COMING??

 

[ToxicBunny]

They do. Extensively.

Many government departments and SOEs use Oracle and Oracle underpinned software very extensively.

This is one of those moves that just screams "We need to be seen to have a culprit so we'll choose the big nasty WMC corporation" but it doesn't even vaguely consider that that nasty WMC corporation has the government by the balls when it comes to support on a variety of things.

 

[The_Rolling_Giant]

HOW DID THEY NOT SEE THIS COMING??

Lack of foresight.

 

[_TrXtR_]

What about Accenture? They do work for our government, I doubt they have one successful product. But I wouldn't know ‍

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

how do you know this?

Personal experience contracting to the company a good few years ago + knowledge of their current systems from colleagues still at the company.

 

[Charles Butcher]

This seems more of a political thing? Why blacklist Oracle for a botched project. Make them redo it for free.

This way they can hide their THEFT

 

[Mystic Twilight]

How can they blacklist Oracle. I'm sure most of gov't run on Oracle. Will be funny if they do and everything stops working

Then we will see what doesn't work anymore.

Things stop working? In a south african context? You probably won't see much of a difference in a lot of things government related, when did things start working in the first place? At least half the civil servants are on tea breaks or no-shows even if the software was working.