The Province of the Eastern Cape reported that an application for a rollover and/or appeal for additional funding will be made to the Provincial Treasury to deal with the payment backlogs dating back to 2004. The Province of the Eastern Cape added that SNP Tender has to be awarded by the first week in September 2010 to ensure timeous issuing of award letters and orders to new service providers by Supply Chain Management; monitoring of programme to be improved and learner data to be verified and lastly, the Province said payments to current service providers have been updated and are to be made within 30 days.