It’s another busy week for National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with municipalities leading the charge to the ICT industry. When it comes to top tenders, however, it is government entities in the safety, intelligence and justice sectors that dominate.
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is likely to draw most interest with a request for an open source intelligence (OSINT) and social media investigation and monitoring technologies.
The bid documentation reveals the tool will be required to collect and mine data from various social media sources, the dark web and searches in public domain data and must be able to identify criminal markets or hot spots to initiate investigations.
Further reading reveals SAPS is looking to acquire intelligence on a variety of user-defined analytics, including sentiment, significance, reach, popularity, key influencers, concepts, named entities and persons, watch lists, data types, slang phrases, opinions, calls to action and any other sources.
This type of technology could have given SAPS early warning of the July unrest in 2021 that left over 350 people dead and created significant economic damage. It also could have helped it identify key players and assist in prosecution.
Other tenders that make this week’s top 10 include:
- The State Information Technology Agency opens the issue with a request for maintenance and support of court recording technology for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. The tender documentation reveals this is split into two systems: the court recording environment that is used to record court proceedings via a set of microphones for court participants and the sexual offenses system which is used in sexual offenses proceedings to separate vulnerable victims from the accused. The department has 650 courthouses nationwide, equating to 2 247 courtrooms.
The Air Traffic and Navigation Services Company (ATNS) is looking for an experienced service provider for the provision of comprehensive IT disaster recovery. ATNS says it wishes to award the full scope of the contract – sourcing, implementation and support – to one supplier meeting its preferential procurement requirements. Suppliers that do not meet the preferential procurement requirements must partner with a local supplier that meets the requirements in the form of a joint venture.
The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) requires a service provider to implement a disaster-recovery-as-a-service and backup-as-a-service solution. This solution is required to integrate fully with its existing backup and virtualisation hosting services implemented at the FIC headquarters.
The Department of Transport kicks off with its first request for its internal audit service with a tender for a data analytics solution. Unfortunately, not much more can be said about this tender as the posted documentation duplicates the scope of the following notice.
The department’s request for a document management system is supported with appropriate scope of work. The required system is to take the place of its previous system, which it says was inadequately designed, inefficient and unable to meet the needs of the internal audit process, it says, and should support the process through the stages of planning, execution, reporting and continuous monitoring of findings and risks associated with them.
The State Security Agency follows with a complex tender combining four requests into one. These entail service, repair, maintenance, support and supply of spares for printers; extension of warranty on HP printers; safe transportation of printers in specialised vehicles from its head office to provincial offices; and training of 30 technicians to be HP, Lexmark and Fargo certified.
Given the widespread media coverage of alleged corruption at the National Lotteries Commission, it’s unsurprising the organisation is looking for an electronic compliance management system. Despite the importance of this system, the commission has set a short period for tender responses.
The Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) is looking for an application programming interface management solution that will enable it to seamlessly integrate with other applications and services, both on-premises and cloud. The solution should enable ACSA to publish and consume APIs from different application interfaces, it says.
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) closes the issue with a request for information on governance, risk and compliance (GRC) systems. Another organisation that hasn’t fared well in the media spotlight in recent months, the RAF says it hopes the GRC system will provide a “coordinated approach to all assurance activities, thus ensuring control activities performed by management, internal assurance providers and external assurance providers adequately addresses significant risks facing the organisation and that suitable controls exist to mitigate and reduce these risks”.
New tenders
State Information Technology Agency
SITA is advertising for the provisioning of maintenance and support services for the court recording environment and sexual offenses system (including break-fixes).
Compulsory briefing: 13 Mar – Microsoft Teams.
Tender no:RFB 2713/2022
Information: Khanya Mkhonza, Tel: 012 482 3114, E-mail: Khanya.Mkhonza@sita.co.za.
Closing date: 31 Mar 2023
Tags: Hardware, software, services, support and maintenance
South African Police Service
Supply, installation, training, maintenance and support is sought of an OSINT and social media investigation and monitoring technologies for a period of three years. Division: Technology Management Services.
Compulsory briefing: 13 Mar
Note: Law enforcement agency letter solution evidence, brochure or manuals to be supplied where the solution is explained.
Tender no: 19/1/9/1/134TR
Information: LT Col Mahlaule, Tel: 012 841 7852, E-mail: mahlauleg@saps.gov.za.
Closing date: 23 Mar 2023
Tags: Software, open source, intelligence, social media, monitoring, services, support and maintenance
Air Traffic and Navigation ServicesCompany Limited
ATNS wishes to appoint an experienced service provider for provision of comprehensive IT disaster recovery for a period of three years.
Non-compulsory briefing: 14 Mar – Microsoft Teams.
Note: Bidders must request the briefing session link from andyn@atns.co.za.
Tender no: ATNS/ITRFP068/FY22.23/ Disaster Recovery
Information: Andy Ngubane, Tel: 011 607 1000, E-mail: andyN@atns.co.za.
Closing date: 27 Mar 2023
Tags: Services, software, security, disaster recovery
Financial Intelligence Centre
Proposals are requested for the appointment of a service provider to implement a disaster-recovery-as-a-service and backup-as-a-service solution that will be able to fully integrate with the centre’s existing hardware and software services.
Compulsory briefing: 8 Mar – Microsoft Teams, Link.
Note: Bidders are required to inform the FIC when the documents will be delivered at the FIC offices, in order to provide an access code. Communication can be sent to Keneilwe.masemene@fic.gov.za.
Tender no: FIC/RFB/VIRTUALBACKUP/1/2022/23
Information: Keneilwe Masemene, Tel: 012 641 6145, E-mail: Keneilwe.masemene@fic.gov.za.
Closing date: 23 Mar 2023
Tags: Services, software, hardware, services, disaster recovery, backup, disaster-recovery-as-a-service, backup-as-a-service
Department of Transport
The national department wishes to appoint a service provider to implement, maintain and support a data analytics solution for its internal audit service for a period of 19 months.
Tender no: SCM/05/2022/ODG
Information: Thabo Skosana, Tel: 012 309 3035, E-mail: SkosanaT@dot.gov.za.
Closing date: 31 Mar 2023
Tags: Software, services, analytics, data analytics, support and maintenance
The department is also looking for a service provider to implement, maintain and support a document management system for its internal audit service for a period of 19 months.
Tender no: SCM/06/2022/ODG
Information: Thabo Skosana, Tel: 012 309 3035, E-mail: SkosanaT@dot.gov.za.
Closing date: 31 Mar 2023
Tags: Software, services, document management, support and maintenance
State Security Agency
A service provider/s is sought for the service/repair, maintenance, support and supply of spares for printers for a period of five years; extension of warranty at the end of warranty period for a period of two years on HP printers; safe transportation of printers in specialised vehicles from HQ to provincial offices for a period of five years; and training of 30 ICT technicians to be HP, Lexmark and Fargo certified over a period of five years.
Compulsory briefing: 10 Mar
Note: Send ID copies indicating the name of the company before coming to the briefing meeting. E-mail to nonhlanhlal@ssa.gov.za.
Tender no: SSA/42/2022-23
Information: Nonhlanhla Vilakazi, Tel: 012 426 2331, E-mail: nonhlanhlal@ssa.gov.za.
Closing date: 3 Apr 2023
Tags: Software, hardware, printing, warranty extension, training and elearning, services, support and maintenance
National Lotteries Commission
Bids are invited for the supply, installation, configuration and provision of after sales and technical support of an electronic compliance management system.
Tender no: RFP/2023- 0130
Information: Tshepiso Mahlake, Tel: 012 432 1315, E-mail: TshepisoM@nlcsa.org.za.
Closing date: 14 Mar 2023
Tags: Software, services, compliance, security, support and maintenance
Airports Company of South Africa
ACSA is advertising for the acquisition, support and maintenance of an application programming interface solution for a period of 60 months.
Non-compulsory briefing: 10 Mar – Microsoft Teams, Link.
Tender no: COR7057/2022/RFP
Information: Sydney Mfeka, Tel: 011 723 1483, E-mail: sydney.mfeka@airports.co.za.
Closing date: 31 Mar 2023
Tags: Software, application programming interface
Request for information
Road Accident Fund
Information is sought for the road accident governance, risk and compliance system.
Non-compulsory briefing: 9 Mar – Microsoft Teams.
Tender no: RAF 2023 00004
Information: Tshiamo Motitswe, Tel: 012 429 5645, E-mail: Tshiamomo@raf.co.za.
Closing date: 31 Mar 2023
Tags: Software, governance, compliance, risk management, security
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