SASSA's R1bn IT bill
29 March 2017
Cape Town - The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) currently has contracts with various information and communication technology service worth over R1bn, a parliamentary reply has revealed.
SASSA will spend roughly R1.18bn on 27 different ICT contracts still in effect as of March 2017, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini said on Wednesday.
She was responding to a question from Democratic Alliance MP Johanna Edwards, who had also asked when the tenders had been advertised, and for how long each contract would last.
The biggest contract is a three-year one, for SOCPEN hosting, worth R331m. SOCPEN is the information management system through which the grants are processed.