The Department of Transport is facing numerous questions regarding the R898 million smart driving licence cards tender awarded to Idemia.
The decision comes as pressure was mounting on the Department of Transport to provide detailed explanation and reasons about why it issued the tender to the company which has recently had its R115 million Airports Company South Africa tender cancelled.tender has raised more questions than answers
Acsa eventually cancelled the contract after the two companies got into a fierce dispute, with InfoVerge approaching the courts, claiming Idemia had excluded it from the contract after the tender was secured. – the implications for this procurement process of the recent cancellation by Acsa of a contract that was awarded to Idemia due to a contractual dispute between Idemia and its BBBEE partner InfoVerge;
Creecy’s intervention comes after she reportedly met earlier this week with the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse .“Idemia is a global leader in physical and digital identity solutions, trusted by governments around the world for our proven expertise and innovation,” the company said. The AA said it wanted to know about the time-frames for the roll-out of the new drivers licence smart cards, and the reason why “Idemia was selected“ for the project.
“We must question why the digitisation of license cards is not top of the agenda at the DoT; the ability to manage driving licenses through fingerprints would, in our view, be more appropriate and more secure, especially given the rate of forgery of physical cards,” the AA said in a statement.
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