The Technology Innovation Agency aims to review, clean up, capture, expedite and organise funding applications data. (Image source: iStock) National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers another slow week for the ICT industry, as even municipalities and districts start to slow down on publishing requests. It is against this backdrop that the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) takes…
Service providers are sought for the supply of cloud services for the South African School Administration and Management System. (Image source: iStock) It’s another quiet week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, requiring the ICT industry to turn to local government, as a wide range of metro, district and local municipalities come to the party with…
The Department of Social Development seeks to appoint a service provider to render a hosted call centre service for its Gender-Based Violence Command Centre. (Image source: iStock) With school holidays and Heritage Day providing interruptions to the working week, National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers a quiet week. Despite the low volume of tenders, the hardware…
SASSA seeks a cloud-based omni-channel contact centre as a service solution. (Image source: iStock) National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers a mixed bag for the ICT industry this week, with a rush of new advertisements favouring those companies that are eager to engage in lower value, quick turnaround quotation requests. A new tender from the South…
Henry Myburgh, senior regional account manager southern Africa at Vertiv (l) with Richard Lace, business unit manager at Pinnacle ICT (r). Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), which positions itself as a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, has announced a distribution partnership with Pinnacle ICT, which positions itself as Africa’s leading ICT company, extending the availability of…
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has accused government of substituting workshops and road maps for delivery on technology policy, pointing to a broadcast digital migration programme 16 years overdue and South Africa’s continued absence of an AI strategy. Godongwana was delivering the keynote address at the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s annual…
SAPS, via SITA, seeks a service provider to supply, deliver, support and maintain body-worn and vehicle dashboard cameras. (Image source: iStock) It’s another busy week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with around 800 new requests placed on the platform over the past week. The ICT industry fares well with municipalities, in particular, offering a range…
Bidders for the Home Affairs revenue administration system must plan and price for a larger, two‑tier footprint of 275 fixed sites and 230 mobile units. It a good week for the hardware sector on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, as several large public sector institutions look to address equipment requirements. The Department of Home Affairs takes…
South African Information and Communication Technology Association CEO Dr Jannie Zaaiman. The South African Information and Communication Technology Association (SAICTA) has introduced a new jobs portal aimed at connecting ICT professionals and graduates with employers. Called Industry Connect, the portal is intended to go beyond traditional online job boards by linking employers, jobseekers and professional…
The JSE has suspended trading in Labat Africa’s shares with immediate effect after the technology investment holding company failed to pay the first dividend in its 27 years as a listed company. In a notice published on Thursday, the JSE said Labat had failed to pay the declared dividend in accordance with the corporate action…
