It is expensive to prosecute COVID-19 procurement cases: Competition Commission
The Competition Commission says it is very costly to prosecute COVID-19 procurement related cases and has called on the government to urgently address the current systemic failures in public procurement. Commissioner Tembinkosi Bonakele says such cases can overwhelm the capacity of institutions such as the Competition Commission. Bonakele says, “The Commission has swiftly investigated these two cases involving very high markups for COVID-19 PPE. The nature and scale of these […]
