1. (a) No tender was awarded
(b) Not applicable
(c) Not applicable
2. Not applicable
3. (a) Tenders were awarded to Prosense, Vodacom and Govchat.
3. (b)
- SASSA varied Prosense’s existing contract with R2, 9 million.
- Vodacom was awarded R15 million for thetender through the existing National Treasury RT15 contract (RT15 is a Government Transversal contract to Supply and deliver mobile communication services to the State during the lockdown period 27 March to 16 April 2020)
- Govchat services are rendered for free to SASSA
4. Yes, the standard procurement processes were followed.
5. - Prosense was appointed to build the APIS(Application Programming Interface system)for data validation and to develop website for Special SRD Grant (Social Relief of Distress Grant)
- Vodacom was appointed to develop USSD platform (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data)for SRD Applications
- Govchat was appointed to develop the Special SRD Application Platform for free