Parliament hears of ‘major business and security risks’ regarding SAPS
The status of some procurement agreements entered into by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) with Forensic Data Analysts (FDA) were a "major business and security risk to the organisation", parliament’s portfolio committee on police said.Francois Beukman, chairman of the committee, said in a statement on Thursday that it had noted reports that a service provider was threatening to terminate essential software services due to non-payment.FDA, an entity that supplies critical infrastructure systems and services to SAPS and Sita, said in a statement on Wednesday that it had rendered services to SAPS from December 1 2017 to March 31 2018, without payment of any of the invoices it issued. The FDA said it was awarded a three-year contract by Sita on October 31 2017, which was subject to the conclusion of a written agreement being signed.FDA had signed it, while Sita, had, to the best of FDA’s knowledge, not signed the agreement for s...
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