PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON CORRECTIONAL SERVICE

PRESENTED BY

SITA

27 February 2013

BACKGROUND

The following matters were raised at previous Department of Correctional Services (DCS) Portfolio Committee held on 12 September 2012 and SITA is to report on the findings. Signing of Business Agreement Outstanding SITA payments RDOMS -Remand Detainee Progress on VPN Migration

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SITA’s intervention to SITA’s intervention to DCS ChallengesDCS Challenges

ISSUE PROPOSED SOLUTION STATUS

Signing of the current Business Agreement

A new BA workshopped and submitted to DCS for signature

Engaging with GITO for further negotiation

Delays in payments to SITA

DCS to effect payments for outstanding debt to avoid accumulating interest on overdue account

2012-13 Payments are paid regularly. Balance at R44mil of which R10mil is current financial year.

R34 mil disputes DCS requested supporting documents on outstanding invoices

SITA has retrieved supporting documents to the value of R18mil and will complete the process in 3months

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SITA’s intervention to SITA’s intervention to DCS ChallengesDCS Challenges

ISSUE PROPOSED SOLUTION STATUS

RDOMS-Remand Detainee and Offender Management System

SITA, DCS and Dimension Data to find a solution towards completing the project.

Meeting held between the 3 parties to outline the way forward. SITA recommends further engagements with the SITA CEO, DCS Commissioner and Dimension Data Chairperson to resolve the matter amicably.

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STATUS OF DCS DEBT TO SITASTATUS OF DCS DEBT TO SITA R34 million

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STRATEGIC PROJECTSSTRATEGIC PROJECTSPROJECT BENEFIT STATUS

Virtual Private Network (VPN)-Migration of +/- 400 sites to the SITA NGN

Secure connections to or from foreign networks through Common Access Point (CAP) with high Quality of Service (QoS)

Migration to SITA VPN is scheduled 1-3 March 2013

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Thank you