‘Procurement irregularities’ has taken 3rd place on Corruption Watch SA’s Corruption Report 2017 (CRW2017). Coming in at 12% of the reported types of corruption, procurement irregularities trails bribery as the most common form of reported corruption (27% of cases). However, CRW2017 does not define ‘procurement irregularities’, which caused Xavier Greyling (MCIPS) to question if procurement […]
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Agencies working – or hoping to work – on major corporate accounts in the advertising, marketing and communications industry can no longer ignore or misunderstand procurement departments and their importance in winning both government and corporate clients. Johanna McDowell, Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) managing director, warns that the B-BBEE Amended Codes
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Recent studies by Stats SA indicate that the face of poverty in South Africa remains black, female and that of children below the age of 17. Furthermore, more than one in every two SA citizens can be officially classified as poor, said Gauteng Finance MEC Barbara Creecy at the Smart Procurement World conference in
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Mluleki Ntlemeza, a supply chain consultant wonders if there is point at which labour should be procured by procurement, and not through traditional HR processes, in this month’s SmartProcurement.
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Most say that savings are just one component of this value proposition and that we need to look outside of savings into other areas of value, like stimulating innovation, supporting the organisation’s corporate social responsibility goals and reducing risk throughout the supply chain. Everyone agrees with these articles and, as we map out KPIs for
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Treasury’s cost-cutting drive has pitted it against other government departments. Chief Procurement Officer Kenneth Brown has drawn criticism from politicians who are unhappy with his investigations of procurement, said Ralph Mathekga, a political analyst at the Johannesburg-based research group, the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection. In September the Treasury said it rejected a request
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The Gauteng provincial government (GPG) hosted its first open tender seminar showcasing the progress the province has made in rolling out its open tender project over the past two years. The event was also aimed at encouraging other provincial governments and municipalities to adopt the process. “We took the decision in 2014 that it
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The government’s procurement policy will be overhauled in a bid to support black and small businesses, said President Jacob Zuma. ”The buying power of the state is a powerful economic tool. It can and must be used to advance black economic empowerment, ” said Zuma, speaking at a Black Business Council dinner in September.
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Eskom failed to follow its own supply chain policies, the PFMA and Section 217 of the Constitution when making pre-payments to the Gupta’s Tegeta exploration and resources to secure coal supply, said Corruption Watch in a statement. “We are concerned about the nature and scale of procurement irregularities at Eskom,” said Corruption Watch’s executive
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In preparation for the upcoming G20 summit in China this September, the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau (SEPB) issued an order for an estimated 1 000 factories within a 300-km radius of Shanghai to cut down production. This measure was enacted to reduce pollution before world leaders arrive for the event. So how will this
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