MTBPS: Godongwana launches new public procurement payments dashboard

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana launched a new public dashboard on Wednesday, in a bid to improve transparency and accountability in procurement.

The procurement payments dashboard will draw procurement information from various government payment systems, supplemented by contract data reported on the e-tender portal and information from the central supplier database.

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The published data will include supplier and ownership details, as well as information on procurement transactions and all payments made to suppliers.

Godongwana said this would enable members of the public to scrutinese procurement data and strengthen accountability and trust.

"This represents a massive step forward in procurement transparency. The dashboard will help identify inefficiencies, anomalies and uncovering opportunities for consolidation."

Godongwana said the systemcould help prevent a repeat of the mass looting of state coffers through tender irregulatities.

"If you had this system during Tembisa Hospital, what the system does, if you know, if you read this SIU report, what they were doing, they would avoid the tendering system by saying, putting tender, all tenders that are below R500mn, you are not supposed to tender, you are supposed to ask for three quotes. And then people would go on and ask for three quotes and split tenders to be under R500mn. And then this, at the national level or anywhere else, would not be able to track that conduct. What this system does is going to help us to track that conduct and be able to raise flags, to raise red flags at an appropriate time."

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