On the provincial performance information, National Treasury reported that the provinces had targeted to purchase 177 200 library material items but only managed to purchase 60 116. The National Treasury explained that the Eastern Cape, North West and Limpopo were the main underperforming provinces due to poor planning and significant delays in their supply chain management processes, such as slow tender-adjudication processes leading to the late delivery of materials. The National Treasury added that provinces built five new libraries (Eastern Cape one, KwaZulu-Natal one and Limpopo three) against a target of three. The National Treasury also reported that provinces provided 32 libraries with new furniture against a target of 39.