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Weather Services’ multi-million IT tender marred by controversy
Cape Times
|April 04, 2025
THE legalility of a multi-million tender for the South African Weather Service (Saws) has come under scrutiny after it was found to be questionable over several alleged unlawful extensions from 2017 until 2024.
This is according to a legal opinion seen by Cape Times, which was solicited by the Saws board “on the entire process relating to the pro curement of the High-Performance Computer (HPC) system and identify any irregularities and possible reme dies available to the corporation”, according to the lawyers.
The legal opinion dated August 22, 2023 details that the extensions of the tender are allegedly unlawful and cost Saws millions more than the original contract price.
According to the document, Saws has been using its current HPC system supplied by the same company from 2014 to date.
Although the initial Supplier Agree ment was for a period of 36 months, it was varied and extended several times from 2017 until 2024.
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