Prasa contracts to be evaluated by teams of experts
THE office of the chief procurement officer has roped in about 13 private sector law and forensic firms to assist it in evaluating whether about 200 contracts of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) of more than R10m each complied with procurement and supply chain management laws. This is just one of the probes under way into the agency, which is also the subject of an ongoing large-scale forensic probe. Public Protector ThPrasa uli Madonsela had given the instruction for both investigations, and the public protector would be presented with a final report once the probe into the 200-odd contracts had been finalised, Solly Tshitangano, the office’s chief director for governance, monitoring and compliance, told the standing committee on public accounts. The cost of deploying outside firms will be about R25m. Tshitangano said the office was also looking into consulting contracts awarded by Transnet, especially those made without competitive bidding, and the variation of the terms of...
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