GDF Annual Report - Gauteng Provincial Treasury

SECTION 3: REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF PROGRAMMESIn addition 13 successful Road shows were heldduring the year with a total of 12,900 individualsattending.• The Market Research team assisted in developinga Provincial Anti-Corruption Strategy to be tabledthis year at Legislature.• This Unit also benchmarked all STATSSA marketrelated prices into the Shared Service Centre’scatalogue of material prices. This will facilitateeasy comparison of supplier prices.• The Medical Commodity team embarked onroad shows to market contracts that have beenfinalised.• The cost saving initiative on “Labour SavingDevices” and office paper was rolled out to all GPGentities.REASONS FOR MAJOR VARIANCESIn terms of the under-achievement against theProvincial Targets for Preferential Procurement spend;it is worthy to note that the GDF performance wasadversely affected by the non-availability of targetedVendors in the high spending commodities, namely ICT,Professional Services and Transportation Services.OUTLOOK FOR THE YEAR AHEAD(2011/2012)The Procure-to-Pay Business Unit will focus on thefollowing key initiatives during the 2011/2012 financialyear:• Ensure that all tenders are awarded within theprescribed 90 days SLA target period for 95% ofthe time.• As regards the process of buying on quotation,adhere to the prescribed average 8 days SLA for95% of the time.• Manage and maintain an electronic database ofGPG contracts which must be 100% compliant.• Ensure strict adherence to the 30 days SLA forpayment of suppliers, 98% of the time.• A minimum of 600 procurement officials to beprovided systems training within the Province.• Requests for the creation of material and servicemasters will be done within SLA 97% of the time.• SSC spend analysis aligned to Commodity researchwill be channelled toward achievement of the GPGPreferential Procurement Targets:-~ 80% of procurement to be spent on B-BBEEenterprises.~ 30% on Qualifying Small Enterprises withequitable gender participation.~ 20% on Emerging Micro Enterprises withequitable gender participation~ 70% of the total on SA manufacturedproducts.~ 30% spent on Female owned companies.~ 10% spent on Youth owned companies.~ 5% spent on PwD’s owned companies.• Develop a system that will simplify the process oftracking market related prices and benchmarkingthese to tender prices.• To deal efficiently and effectively with financialrisk and price escalations 100% within prescribeddays SLA.106106Annual Report 2010 / 2011