Plain-English pieces for South African procurement officers, CIOs, and bid evaluation panels. Written from thirteen years of working inside the public-sector ICT services market, not from a marketing playbook.
The five ICT control failures the Auditor-General flags most often. What AGSA actually wants to see in each area, and the remediation work to close the findings before the next audit.
Read →Section 38(1)(f) makes accounting officers personally responsible for preventing irregular expenditure. Five patterns that catch ICT contracts most often, and what the file needs to look like.
Read →Five compliance gaps AGSA continues to flag four years after POPIA's commencement. Each is fixable in under three months. A checklist for the Information Officer.
Read →Five practices for writing managed ICT services specifications that attract qualified bidders, survive Section 32 scrutiny, and produce contracts that hold up in delivery.
Read →Five checks a procurement officer can complete in under fifteen minutes to separate genuine Level 1 B-BBEE contributors from paper compliance.
Read →The CIDB grading system was built for civil construction contractors. Applying it as an ICT procurement gate produces predictable bad outcomes. What to require instead.
Read →A procurement officer's evaluation checklist for departmental cloud call-offs under SITA's transversal framework. Categories, pricing dynamics, B-BBEE flow-through, framework gaps.
Read →The headline cost is the contract value. The real cost is five to ten times higher, distributed across re-runs, transition, irregular expenditure, and accounting-officer exposure.
Read →Replacing an underperforming ICT supplier without breaching contract, triggering an irregular expenditure finding, or disturbing the entity's B-BBEE scorecard. Five sequenced steps.
Read →Channel partnership and reselling are not interchangeable models. Procurement officers comparing technology bids on price alone often miss the structural difference. Five questions.
Read →Public-sector clients are pitched ICT advisory engagements regularly. Five questions, asked at the engagement letter stage, separate firms that deliver from firms that report.
Read →If there is a procurement question, contract structure, or compliance grey area you would like a plain answer on, send it in. Topics that make it to print get a copy of the article in your inbox the day it publishes.
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