Gauteng's Infrastructure Department foisted on other departments despite poor service
12 November 2019
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng has learnt that a number of departments in the Gauteng administration are unhappy about the fact that the services provided to them by the Department of Infrastructure Development and Property Management (DID&PM) are of poor quality and do not provide value for money.
Despite this, Premier David Makhura and his Executive Committee have insisted that internal departments such as Health and others be obligated to use the services of the Infrastructure Department for maintenance, refurbishment and the building of new infrastructure.
Senior officials have been intimidated into not speaking out about their concerns, but behind closed doors indicate that they would definitely consider utilising alternative service providers were they to be given that option.
The major complaints relating to the services of DID&PM is that they are not able to complete projects within time and cost budgets, that the work done comes at an inflated cost and that the management of maintenance is so poor that facilities continue to deteriorate at an increasing rate.