{"id":552531,"date":"2007-06-11T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552531-scopa-probes-enatis-2.html"},"modified":"2007-06-11T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T08:47:25","slug":"scopa-probes-enatis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552531-scopa-probes-enatis-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Scopa probes eNatis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Sunday Times has established that Scopa has sent several questions to Mpumi Mpofu, the Director-General in the Department of Transport, asking her to provide a list of companies which tendered for the project and the respective values of their bids. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The probe was triggered by the fiasco which greeted the introduction of the new electronic National Traffic Information System.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The system\u2019s crash has resulted in huge delays in vehicle licenc e registrations around the country. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Scopa\u2019s preliminary questions have solicited responses that show the eNatis tender was allocated to the most expensive bidder. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Scopa chairman Themba Godi said the watchdog body was \u201canxious\u201d about the performance of eNatis and \u201cneeded clarity\u201d as public funds were involved. The glitches in the system raised suspicion that due diligence and risk analysis were not properly performed, before it was introduced, he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The tender was awarded in 2001 to the Tasima consortium at an initial value of R354731000 . It was subsequently increased to R408-million.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Tasima, also known as Masiye Phambili, beat nine companies who bid at prices below R354.7- million. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Another two companies bid below the final R408-million the system has cost. AST Group lost with a R372-million bid and another company, Natcon, lost with a R395-million bid. This brings the companies that bid lower than the ultimate winner to 11, if the adjustment to R408- million is taken into account. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Strangely, Mpofu\u2019s response to Scopa lists two other separate bid amounts under the name Natcon, at R467-million and R457-million, respectively. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The office of the Auditor-General is also conducting a procurement audit on the eNatis project as part of the regularity audit conducted on public entities.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=77812\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament\u2019s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) has launched a probe into the awarding of a R408- million tender for the controversial eNatis project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}