Question NW3369 to the Minister of Home Affairs
06 November 2023 - NW3369
Roos, Mr AC to ask the Minister of Home Affairs
Regarding the Ministerial Review Panel and data recovery process at the Government Printing Works, (a) what are the total costs (i) of the ministerial review panel to date, and (ii) incurred on the project to recover and/or recompile data lost in (aa) February 2021, (bb) January 2022, (cc) March 2022 and (dd) April 2022 and (b) from which budget item were the costs taken in each case?
Reply:
(a)(i) The total cost incurred on the implementation of the Ministerial Review Panel recommendations amounts to R4 184 843.18.
(a)(ii)(aa) No costs were incurred by the GPW on the project to recover and/or recompile data lost in February 2021.
The following organisations were consulted to assist with data recovery:
• Hewlett Packard (OEM)
• CSSI data recovery specialists
• State Security Agency (SSA)
GPW did not raise purchase orders for all the above organisations, therefore no costs were incurred.
(a)(ii)(bb) No data loss was experienced in January 2022, therefore no costs were incurred.
(a)(ii)(cc) GPW did not raise purchase orders on the project to recover and/or recompile data lost in March 2022, therefore no costs were incurred.
(a)(ii)(dd) No data loss was experienced in April 2022, therefore no costs were incurred to recover/recompile data lost.
(b) Funds were allocated to Professional Services and the R4 184 843.18 budget was taken against this budget item.
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