Top ICT tenders: SITA’s relevance to be reviewed

The department will hold a compulsory briefing on 21 January 2025, before closing submissions on 30 January.

Other tenders that make this week’s top 10:

• Staying with DCDT, proposals are also invited for the development of a implementation roadmap which will guide the rationalisation of Broadband Infraco (BBI) and Sentech SOC Ltd to form a unified, strategic State Digital Infrastructure Company. This assignment will review and build on earlier business cases, ensuring updated analysis that reflects current realities, including fiscal constraints and BBI’s turnaround strategy.

• National Treasury is looking for a ICT service provider to render professional services in the form of human resources skills on an as and when needed basis for a period of 36 months. The required service categories are project manager, business/systems analyst, application developer, database administrator, tester, enterprise architect, business intelligence developer, business continuity consultant, and disaster recovery consultant.

• An accredited service provider is also required to supply, install and configure Checkpoint next-generation firewall devices in the department’s new buildings with a three-year professional services, maintenance and support contract. National Treasury explains it is relocating to new office space, consisting of two buildings (Block A and C) at Riverwalk Office Park in Pretoria, which do not have dedicated perimeter security appliances.

• Finally, National Treasury wishes to appoint a service provider to supply, install, configure, support, and maintain the LAN switches and LAN cabling at the new office space. The tender aims to ensure that there is reliable and high-speed wired and wireless network connectivity at the new buildings as they do not have any existing network infrastructure.

• The Department of International Relations and Cooperation is looking for a service provider to provide an electronic asset management system and support at its head office and South African missions abroad for a period of five years. This system will be expected to assist DIRCO to maximise asset utilisation, making it easy to record, audit and track assets, including a number of important asset details.

• Similarly, the Department of Mineral Resources wishes to appoint a service provider to develop and maintain an assets management system for a period of 36 months. This commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) movable asset management system is required to automate and enhance the end-to-end management of departmental assets, it says.

• The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is looking for a service provider to assist it with the licensing process for the International Mobile Telecommunications spectrum in the radio frequency spectrum bands IMT750, IMT800, IMT1500, IMT2300, IMT3300, and IMT3500. The tender includes conducting a competition assessment of direct spectrum holdings and indirect spectrum access; development of rules for the market-based assignment approach for the spectrum bands to be licensed; implement the market-based assignment approach adopted by the authority to licence the identified spectrum bands; determination of the value of each of the spectrum bands and the packaging of the spectrum into suitable lots; and the transferring of knowledge, particularly on spectrum valuation, to at least 16 ICASA employees.

• The Department of Trade Industry and Competition is calling for the review, maintenance and enhancement of its business continuity management process and plan (BCMP) for a period of 36 months. The department notes ensuring the continuity of its operations is essential to fulfilling its mandate, particularly in the face of potential disruptions such as cyber incidents, power outages, pandemics of other operational crises.

• Sentech closes this issue with its intent to appoint a panel of service providers for the supply, delivery, installation and support of IoT applications and platform for a period of three years with an option to extend for a further two years. These IOT applications and platform will enable Sentech to meet customer and mandated requirements, it explains. “The IoT service provisioning require the development of an IoT ecosystem which includes all the components that enable people, businesses, governments and consumers to connect to their IoT devices, using hardware that includes remote monitoring, dashboards, networks, gateways, analytics, data storage, and security.”