The Province of Eastern Cape reported some of the contributing factors to under-spending as follows: delays in the loading of the conditional grant budget in April (due to conditional grant codes) which led to payments to be made only in the last week of April 2010; slow, late and non-submission of 1401's BAS entity forms by schools which is an additional control measure and prerequisite for transfer of meal servers payments to schools; the non-awarding of NSNP tender resulted in further extension of the contract in April-June 2010 which was approved late in June 2010 with the old price of R1.65 instead of R1.95 for primary schools and R2.00 for secondary schools instead of R2.95 and this translated to delays in payments; the extended tender continued to provide food excluding quintile 2 senior secondary schools from April to June 2010 due to non-awarding of the tender.