MPs grill Correctional Services Department over ‘artificial IT crisis’
MPs have accused the Correctional Services Department of creating an "artificial crisis" in order to push for the regularisation of its multimillion-rand contract with information technology (IT) company Integritron Integrated Solutions. The National Treasury found that the R378m tender was awarded without following proper procedures and instructed the department to cancel it. Members of Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday grilled department officials on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, and highlighted some of the irregular and costly contracts the department had signed. They suggested the department had deliberately created a crisis with its IT systems in order to justify the issuing of a new and much more expensive tender. DA MP Tim Brauteseth likened the mess at the department to the social grants debacle, during which Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) was accused of...
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