Creecy seeks to scrap licence card printing tender
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has turned to the courts to get a contract for a driving licence card printing machine scrapped.
The tender was awarded to French technology firm IDEMIA last year.
However, the Auditor-General has found that it was irregularly awarded.
It says procurement processes were not properly followed, and there was some manipulation.
Minister Creecy is asking the High Court for a declaratory order.
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has welcomed the move.
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OUTA says it raised the red flag and also gave authorities a dossier that revealed the contract price had ballooned from the budgeted R468 million to over R898 million.
CEO Wayne Duvenage says their investigations also found that the winning bidder failed to meet key bid technical requirements.
We are very grateful that the minister agrees and is taking this matter through the courts to have this tender cancelled. More than that, we would like to see accountability against the perpetrators,” says Duvenage.
"It was so clear and obvious to us that this tender was manipulated.”
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