In his report on the audit of the Treasury’s financial statements for 2017/18, Makwetu observed that contracts were awarded to suppliers whose tax matters had not been declared by the SA Revenue Service.
”Some of the contracts were awarded to bidders that did not score the highest points in the evaluation process, as required by the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act and the Preferential Procurement Regulations,” reads the report.
According to Makwetu, Treasury, which received an unqualified audit opinion, incurred irregular expenditure of R768.9m as it did not follow proper tender processes and did not properly approve its expenditure.
The AG found that bidders who failed to submit mandatory documents were evaluated for preferential points, and that this non-compliance related mainly to transversal term contracts facilitated by the department. Transversal term contracts are centrally facilitated and arranged by the National Treasury for goods…