{"id":43629,"date":"2013-08-04T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T09:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=43629"},"modified":"2013-08-05T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T07:11:58","slug":"smart-id-card-bee-tender-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/43629\/smart-id-card-bee-tender-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart ID card BEE tender battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City Press reported today (4 August 2013) that losing competitor in the ID smart card bid, Batho Phahameng<\/a>, has complained to the competition commission after competitor Altech Card Services<\/a> won the government tender.<\/p>\n

Batho Phahameng\u2019s CEO, Grant Son<\/a>, complained to the Auditor-General that his company was not selected, despite having the same amount of BEE points as Altech\u2019s division.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are curious as to how Altech scored eight points for broad-based black economic empowerment, the same as a 100% black managed, operated and black-supported business,\u201d said Son.<\/p>\n

Both Batho Phahameng and Altech scored 98 in the bid adjudication.<\/p>\n

Government Printing Works (GPW) responded, saying that the scores were based on the BEE certificate of both companies, and both firms showed the same level of empowerment.<\/p>\n

Son also contests the fact that Batho Phahameng \u201cfailed to meet mandatory requirements related to technical aspects of the equipment\u201d and \u201cfailed to adhere to terms and conditions relating to pricing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competition commission is investigating the merits of Batho Phahameng\u2019s complaints.<\/p>\n

The bid formed part of the drive from the Department of Home Affairs to replace all green bar-coded ID books with new high-tech cards.<\/p>\n

More on smart ID cards<\/h3>\n

Zuma, Mbeki and Tutu to get smart ID cards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New SA ID cards go high-tech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Smart ID cards in 2013: Home Affairs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Govt appoints new minister of science and technology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smart ID card bidder Batho Phahameng contests the selection of Altech as the winner for the government project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[311,6435,6434,1516,26,6436],"class_list":["post-43629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-altech","tag-altech-card-services","tag-batho-phahameng","tag-competition-commission","tag-headline","tag-smart-id-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43654,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43629\/revisions\/43654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}