The passenger rail agency has until the end of November to report back on the status of a new tender process for security contracts.
In 2011, PRASA appointed Sechaba Protection Services, Chuma Security Services, Supreme Security Services and the Vusa-Isizwe Security Group on one-year contracts to assist with the provision of security.Then, in April 2019, PRASA issued a new tender. The security companies all submitted bids. There were delays in the award, and the security companies’ contracts were again extended.
Judge Bishop, in his judgement handed down on 1 November, said ‘things went quiet,’ until PRASA filed the application before him in June this year for a ‘discharge’ of Hlophe’s supervisory order.PRASA said it had now complied with the supervisory order and was about to put out a new tender.The security companies strongly opposed this, arguing that the application was premature and commuters’ safety was again at risk.
He said this was a constitutional matter. The justification for the supervisory order was not, primarily, the service providers’ commercial interests but commuters’ constitutional rights.However, in this matter, it had failed, largely because it had been handled by too many different judges over the years and because compliance was in the hands of self-interested’ security companies, who had no incentive to force their own replacement.
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