The South African Revenue Service has submitted the following information. Please note that the Minister is unable to verify the content.
1. The cost incurred for the mandated work was:
2. No, SARS used an already existing panel that was previously appointed through an open tender process in terms of paragraph 4.9 of the National Treasury Supply Chain Management – A guide for accounting officers/ authorities – February 2004. SARS further ran a close tender process within the panel which resulted in Bain being the successful bidder.