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May 27, 2021
By Kathy Gibson – Disgruntled ICT resellers excluded from the latest transversal contract won a qualified victory during an informal protest at the State IT Agency (SITA) this morning.
A group of resellers converged on the agency’s Erasmuskloof offices to ask questions about what they perceive as the bungling of a tender for the provision of client devices over the next three years.
The tender in question is RFB0740, the transversal contract for the provision of personal computers, mobile devices and services, computer peripherals, consumables and services for government departments for a period of three years.
Literally hundreds of companies – many of them 100% black-owned SMEs and SMMEs who were accredited under the previous tender – have been excluded from a list of suppliers that now numbers just 362 accredited organisations.