Paperless Classroom contract above board
27 July 2015
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has noted comments by the Democratic Alliance (DA) that the Department’s Paperless Classroom project runs the risk of being another Limpopo textbook disaster.
The DA is stating this because the Department has appointed Edu-solution “the company responsible for the Limpopo textbook crisis” to provide services relating to the procurement and delivery of learner support material to schools in the Province.
The reality is that the Department appointed Edu-solution in 2012 on contract number GT/GDE/056/2012 until March 2016 to provide services relating to the procurement and delivery of learner support material to schools in the province. Given that the e-learning material and devices are defined as LTSM, they are covered within the scope of work.
The scope includes the management of the entire LTSM procurement process and other materials for all grades at all section 21.1.c schools, non-section 21.1.c schools, ELSEN schools, ABET centres, ECD centres, etc.