Top ICT tenders: RAF to upgrade SAP as part of transformation

The Street Accident Fund seeks to improve its SAP ECC 6.0 panorama to SAP S/4HANA platform.

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It’s a considerably low-key week for the ICT trade on Nationwide Treasury’s eTenders Portal, regardless of the looks of the Division of Defence and two provincial schooling departments.

Nevertheless, the Street Accident Fund (RAF) grabs consideration with its announcement that it needs to comprehensively improve its SAP ECC 6.0 panorama to the SAP S/4HANA platform. This important initiative calls for adherence to SAP’s really helpful roadmap and finest practices for improve and migration, it says.

The commercial follows reports final week that the Authorized Follow Council had briefed Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts on the standing of the RAF and medico-legal claims in opposition to the state. This revealed that system errors and dysfunction on the fund had resulted in inaccurate funds of R350 million to 101 legislation corporations in 2021.

Within the tender documentation, the fund reveals it has commenced its transformation journey, which started with the approval of the 2020–2025 technique. One of many technique’s focus areas is ‘system modernisation’ which strives to enhance the RAF’s service supply to its inside and exterior stakeholders by introducing cutting-edge know-how.

The RAF’s know-how and digital division has adopted a cloud-based technique, with present on-premises options being moved to the cloud.

The RAF’s present panorama is SAP ERP EHP8, SP19, on an Oracle 19G database, it says. This configuration means a Unicode conversion shouldn’t be required for this improve undertaking, it says. Bidders ought to word the HCM is highly-customised. Moreover, the prevailing system utilises an enhanced CVI cockpit device for buyer vendor integration actions.

“This improve will modernise the enterprise options, offering a sturdy, scalable and environment friendly platform with best-in-class functionalities and regulatory compliance. Changing our end-of-life SAP system and infrastructure is important to the undertaking as it will cut back prices, allow new capabilities (diminished sign-on, SAP Fiori, SAP Ariba and SAP SuccessFactors), and drive vital enhancements in enterprise efficiency,” it says.

In a second request for proposals, the RAF is looking for the provision and implementation of a cloud-based e-mail safety answer.

“RAF recognises the ever-evolving cyber threats that use e-mail infrastructure as a main entry level into organisations. In step with the cloud migration technique and the necessity to tackle the evolving cyber safety panorama and the altering nature of community entry, the know-how and digital safety unit seeks to spend money on a cloud-based e-mail safety answer,” it explains.

The RAF at the moment makes use of Microsoft Alternate On-line to safeguard it in opposition to e-mail-based threats. Key e-mail safety necessities embody safety in opposition to identified and unknown assaults, enterprise e-mail compromise, phishing, focused assaults, account takeovers, ransomware and unauthorised information loss, amongst others. The present answer doesn’t absolutely cater to RAF’s necessities and due to this fact there’s a must deploy a fully-fledged cloud-based e-mail safety answer.

The proposed answer’s administration engine or portal should be deployed and delivered as a cloud-based software-as-a-service answer and should have capabilities to safeguard RAF e-mail customers, each from a pre-delivery and post-delivery perspective. The answer should additionally combine with the RAF’s Microsoft Sentinel Safety Data and Occasions Administration system, Microsoft Alternate On-line and Lively Listing.

Different tenders that make this week’s high 10:

• The Division of Defence needs to outsource its web site improvement, internet hosting and upkeep. The specs embody web site design and person expertise; content material administration system; complaints submission portal integration; person registration and entry management; safety and information safety; search engine optimisation; and internet hosting and upkeep.

• The Border Administration Authority is inviting accredited service suppliers to submit proposals for the design, improvement and implementation of an built-in doc and information administration system with file plan and workflow capabilities. The intention of the undertaking is to boost doc and information administration, streamline workflows, enhance effectivity and guarantee compliance with authorized and regulatory necessities, it says.

• The State Data Expertise Company (SITA) is promoting for the supply of planning, design, provide, set up and configurations to improve its entry switches at its Pretoria headquarters and regional places of work with upkeep and assist. The company notes its present entry switches have reached finish of life and assist guarantee. The undertaking presents a chance to enhance the efficiency of methods and stabilise the infrastructure.The company can also be inviting tenders for the improve and redesign of its native space community WiFi infrastructure with upkeep and assist. The tender varieties a part of a large-scale undertaking of {hardware} refreshment to switch WiFi infrastructure to all its places of work in an effort to enhance high quality of service, availability and general reliability.

• Limpopo’s Division of Training needs to nominate a service supplier to conduct a knowledge high quality audit of the schooling administration data system (EMIS) in 250 public and unbiased faculties. The EMIS collects, processes, reviews and disseminates schooling information and knowledge to assist planning, decision-making and the efficient monitoring and analysis of the efficiency of the schooling system within the province, the division says.

• The Council for Scientific and Industrial Analysis (CSIR) is inviting proposals for the supply of a 10Gbps managed bandwidth hyperlink from the Tshwane College of Expertise in Mbombela to the College of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg. As a consequence of elevated vandalism, theft and different dangers, the CSIR prefers underground fibre options, however overhead fibre options will likely be accepted if there are not any underground fibre options accessible and/or inexpensive.

• SITA returns to ask requests for accreditation for last-mile transmission hyperlinks. Profitable service suppliers will be part of a panel of accredited suppliers able to delivering dependable and scalable last-mile transmission companies to assist SITA’s non-public digital communication community and companies for presidency. This consists of offering connectivity from factors of presence to authorities consumer premises on an as-needed foundation.

• The Japanese Cape Division of Training closes the problem with a request for data (RFI) on the supply of data administration, digital information administration, digitisation and efficiency methods. The RFI will assist the division perceive accessible applied sciences; assess distributors’ technical functionality, safety posture and scalability; gauge trade readiness to adjust to POPIA, ISO requirements and authorities integration necessities; in addition to decide price fashions and supply approaches.