(1) Whether there was any external persons who served on the bid evaluation panel when the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office (Cipro) awarded the enterprise content management (ECM) tender to a certain company (name furnished); if so, (a) who were these persons, (b) who invited them to be part of the panel and (c) why; (2) whether the use of external persons on a bid evaluation panel is in line with the Supply Chain Management policy of Cipro; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (3) what was the State Information Technology Agency’s (Sita) involvement in the bid process; (4) why were the senior management staff members, who were implicated in irregularities regarding the ECM tender of Cipro, not put on precautionary suspension; (5) why was the said company paid R77 million by Cipro from 1 March to 30 September 2009?