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Several big ticket contracts have been awarded in recent months.The Department of Defence, through its version of the State IT Agency, Armscor, has awarded IT companies contracts worth over R18 million in recent months.

In November, Armscor awarded Belay Knowledge Management a R771 440 deal for a Verity upgrade, as well as SharePoint modules. Real IRM scored a R500 000 contract at the Naval Dockyard in Simon`s Town, near Cape Town, and The Document Warehouse was paid R34 200 for “rendering an off-site archival service”. This was a follow-on contract from a R573 908.97 tender awarded in September.

Datacentrix was paid R1 355 387 in September for unspecified equipment and software. Business Connexion received R620 709.36 for a server blade purchase and maintenance, the deal being a continuation of work won in a bid in 2006. T-Systems won a R12 767 963.83 contract in June to render an “IT service to Armscor” and the agency paid Rentworks R43 213.42 to rent computer equipment.

Other noteworthy contracts awarded recently are:

Reference

Description

Value

Vendor

Date awarded

ETEL/2006/254

Supply, delivery and installation of transmission (SDH and PDH) equipment

R39 126 436.00

Telkom SA

30 Mar 2007

ETEL/2006/269

Supply, installation and testing of Siemens Hipath 4500, Hipath 3000 and Hipath 2000 PABX Systems and upgrade of Hipath 4300 PABX System

R2 904 630.78

Siemens Telecommunications

7 Dec 2006

ETEL/2006/272

Supply of Vocality V100 multiplexers, documentation and training to the SANDF

R1 628 852.90

Comscience

18 Oct 2006

ETEL/2006/293

Supply satellite RF subsystem (Terrasat or Viasat) to the SANDF

R1 796 603.20

Comscience

3 Nov 2006

ETEL/2006/294

Supply and installation of Viasat Linkway 2100 satellite modem subsystems for the SANDF

R476 821.00

RDL Technologies

7 Dec 2006

ETEL/2006/322

Supply and installation of electronic private automatic branch exchanges for the SA Air Force

R6 662 885.34

Siemens Telecommunications

9 Nov 2006

ETEL/2006/335

Cisco router and switching equipment

R1 681 370.00

Business Connexion

26 Oct 2006

ETEL/2006/360

Preliminary hazard analysis to determine the level of software assurance in terms of RTCA DO-278/ED-109 for a radio switching system for the South African Air Force

R120 140.00

Epsilon Engineering Services

9 Feb 2007

EEQP/2006/634

Software safety assurance and certification support

R2 645 816.00

Storm Technology

5 Apr 2007

EQIT/2006/474

Supply, installation, configuration and maintenance of a high-availability server platform to consolidate and virtualise the server environment at Armscor head office

R5 225 575.02

Business Connexion

3 Jan 2007

EQIT/2006/536

Supply of thin client devices to Armscor and subsidiaries

R882 000.00

CHM Vuwani Computer Solutions

24 Jan 2007

EQIT/2006/582

Supply, installation, configuration and maintenance of a high-availability storage platform to consolidate the storage environment at Armscor head office

R2 478 322.97

Business Connexion

28 Mar 2007

IMN/S2006/0020

Microsoft software

R5 429 415.00

First Technology

29 Mar 2007

IMN/S2007/0021

Microsoft software

R289 554.24

First Technology

19 Apr 2007

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