Tasima loses bid to hold on to eNaTIS contract
Tasima’s last ditch-bid to hold on to the lucrative electronic National Traffic Information System contract has been dismissed with costs
In an order dated February 8 but released on Monday‚ the Constitutional Court said it had considered eNaTIS service provider Tasima’s urgent application for direct access. “It has concluded that the application should be dismissed as it bears no prospects of success‚” the court order said. It dismissed Tasima’s application to vary the order‚ passed by the court in November last year. In that order‚ the court said Tasima must‚ within 30 days‚ hand over the eNaTIS service to the transport department’s agency‚ the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC). Tasima approached the court on December 8 to vary the order. Tasima said it needed 11 months to hand over eNaTIS to the RTMC. However‚ the Constitutional Court did not agree and dismissed the application for direct access with costs. The relationship between the department of transport and Tasima began in 2001‚ when it awarded the company a tender for the provision of services in relation to eNaTIS. The system enables the department...
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