Winde appeared in the legislature on Thursday.
He responded to the ANC's Lulama Mvimbi, after being asked about the tender awarded to the security firm Moodley founded, and why the DA-led administration was doing business with it.The premier said he had contacted National Treasury to ascertain whether the company Moodley was linked to was blacklisted.
"My office has gone through everything to find out whether the tender processes were followed; all of the processes were followed according to the book," he said. 's Scorpio investigative unit reported that the contract was awarded to Royal Security, for a period of two years, at properties owned by the provincial government.He resigned as a member of the closed corporation in 2015.
According to Winde, the Public Finance Management Act and National Treasury regulations were currently the province's only tools to exclude bidders from tender processes. In essence, it did not offer the province any assistance in cases where Treasury had not blacklisted an organisation or individual, or was not found to have committed irregularities in the actual tender itself.In times of uncertainty you need journalism you can trust. For 14 free days, you can have access to a world of in-depth analyses, investigative journalism, top opinions and a range of features. Journalism strengthens democracy. Invest in the future today.