South Africa: Gauteng Department of Education Achieves Significant Savings in Textbook Procurement

press release

The Gauteng Department of Education has achieved important savings in the price of school textbooks for 2014 following a rigorous procurement process.

This included an open tender which attracted 21 bidders and an assessment of all possible cost-cutting measures by an external advisor. As a result, the GDE has been able to secure all of the books required by the 190 Gauteng schools for which it buys learning materials at a projected saving of over R18 million for 2014.

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