Question NW681 to the Minister of Transport
10 April 2019 - NW681
De Freitas, Mr MS to ask the Minister of Transport
(a) Why was the contract with a certain company (name furnished) extended, (b) what are the terms and conditions for the extension, (c) what will his department put in place when the specified contract ends and (d) what are the costs involved?
Reply:
a) The original Open Road Toll Operations contract was for an 8-year operational period for the toll system operations and maintenance and Open Road Toll (ORT) back office component that includes the operations at customer service centers. The Transaction Clearing House and Violation Processing Centre portions of the contract was for 5 years. Agreement was reached between SANRAL and the toll operator whereby the 8-year component of the contract was reduced to 6 years and the 5-year components extended to 6 years. This agreement was approved by National Treasury.
b) The original terms and conditions of the contract remained in place. The relevant applicable time periods were adjusted as indicated above.
c) SANRAL is in process to develop a new toll operation tender and will commence with the tender process in terms of procurement requirements.
d) The terms of the contract including the pricing as per the original tender remains in place. There are no additional costs as a result of the adjusted contractual time periods