The Geneva-based Global Fund is sending its own investigators to SA to probe allegations that its money was used to issue a multimillion-rand tender for an unaccredited company to supply oxygen to at least 55 public hospitals.
An obscure company that won a R428-million tender to bring life-saving healthcare equipment to public hospitals may have done so on the back of allegedly fraudulent documents. A joint Daily Maverick and amaBhungane investigation has identified discrepancies in the regulatory certificate used by Bulkeng, the little-known company that somehow won the lionâs share of the [â¦]
A joint Daily Maverick and amaBhungane investigation reveals how an obscure company used allegedly fraudulent documents to win a R428m tender for installing oxygen plants at government hospitals.
A R428-million tender to install oxygen-producing plants at government hospitals nationally is one SA needs to get right. But instead it’s illuminated weakness in public procurement processes, says Nick Hedley.