The Gauteng Legislature has rolled over two SAP projects, taking R2 million in rollovers, because of delays in completing a SAP upgrade and infrastructure constraints.
According to Gauteng's MEC for finance, Mandla Nkomfe, the legislature received rollovers amounting to R7.4 million for capital projects that were not completed as scheduled or were deferred due to operational reasons. The rollovers are contained in the 2012/13 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
The projects that were not completed include a SAP ESS/MSS project, for which R600 000 was rolled over, as well as an Enterprise Composite Model (ECM) task, at R1.4 million.
Project-dependent
Secretary to the legislature, Peter Skosana, explains that it was running two concurrent SAP projects in the 2011/12 financial year, which included a SAP upgrade and the ESS/MMS project. He says the ESS/MSS project could only be wrapped up after the upgrade was completed, which caused a rollover into the current financial year.
Skosana says the ESS/MSS project included implementing employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) systems. This includes aspects such as reporting, attendance and performance management.
The total cost of the ESS/MSS project, including licence fees and implementation, was R1.8 million, says Skosana. He says the configuration was completed at the end of November, and user testing should be done by the middle of this month, with go-live set for the end of January next year.
Outside factors
Skosana says the ECM project could not be completed on time due to "multiple milestones which had dependencies on environmental and infrastructural constraints as well as the market constraints". He explains that the legislature was dependent on Telkom's fibre upgrades as well as some goods and materials having to be imported.
The ECM includes an access-layer upgrade, wireless and fibre upgrades as well as dual-hosting Internet services, data consolidation and an upgrade of IT policies and procedures. The total project cost R1.8 million and it has been completed in the current financial year.
Nkomfe explains that the 2012/13 adjustments budget takes the province closer to the end of the 2009 to 2014 term of governance, and is an "essential part of consolidating the priorities and finalising critical deliverables identified at the beginning of the term".
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