Newsletter| The Eastern Cape provincial government has reached a settlement with State Information Technology Agency over a multimillion-rand broadband roll-out project which will connect provincial departments, clinics and state offices in remote areas
The over a multimillion-rand broadband roll-out project.
Instead it accused the Eastern Cape of having a predetermined service provider, not following an open bidding process and called the process “illegal”. The project is meant to connect the Eastern Cape’s various provincial departments and other government facilities, such as clinics and offices in remote areas, with Wi-Fi, through the provision of wide-area networks.
The court said Sita should do due diligence of the project within 30 days of signing the agreement, with a view to ascertaining the scope of the work that had been completed. “We were not relenting on the requirement of the 30% localisation, whereas in the Western Cape they had the leeway of up to 15%,” Masualle said.
Mohapi said the court settlement meant that of the 7 000 sites in the Eastern Cape that would be connected by broadband, the work of connecting 4 300 would be subject to an open tender.
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