The chief procurement officer Kenneth Brown said his office was looking at creating a portal for government job adverts along similar lines to the eTender portal.
He said government currently spent R1.5 billion a year on job adverts.
“What we are also thinking about is to use a similar portal for job ads. We are spending about R1.5 billion a year on job ads for the State and if we were to do this, we would save R1.5 billion a year.”
Brown said a new government on-line shopping tool called gCommerce was also being introduced to make it easier for government officials to do procurement.
Through this portal, he said, an accurate identification of commodities would enable state buyers to have quicker turnaround times when buying.
Brown said, meanwhile, that a call centre had been set up to deal with departments that failed to pay invoices within 30 days.
He said the call centre would allow suppliers an opportunity to contact his office to complain about unpaid invoices and upon taking over the query, his office would aim to resolve the problem within 10 days. – SAnews.gov.za
