Department of Water and Sanitation says its probe found expenditure was not irregular
The Department of Water and Sanitation told Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) that its investigations into irregular expenditure that the department incurred in the 2016-17 financial year found that the audit opinion was unfounded, so there was no basis for the expenditure to be declared irregular. The department told the committee that R2.9m worth of spending by the department was vindicated by its investigation. Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu found that the department appointed a service provider in two cases without following supply chain management processes. However, the department also gave a rundown of eight investigations with a total irregular expenditure of R11m where the auditor-general’s findings were confirmed. These were contracts where the winning bidders were not among those requested to provide quotations. Preferential point systems and broad-based black economic empowerment standards were not applied to these contracts when quotations were aw...
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