Government printing costs are expected to ‘dramatically reduce’ over the next three years after South Africa’s National Treasury signed a contract with leading black-owned business ICT solutions provider, Itec Tiyende as part of the panel of providers to provide managed print services across a range of government departments.
This partnership is a key step in an ongoing e-government strategy to digitise workflows and enable services to become more secure, efficient and cost effective.
Itec Tiyende Managing Director, Simbo Ntshinka, said the ‘groundbreaking’ deal would see every printer in government identified, assessed and optimised as part of the redesign of its print environment.
“Managed print services are the gateway to government’s entire digital transformation,” said Ntshinka. “We aim to deliver significant savings in government’s total cost of ownership of printers, devices and consumables over the period of the contract – but the real benefits will come through automated workflows and saving time.”
Managed Print Services (MPS) are one of the key solutions offered to government clients by the Level 1 B-BBEE certified company. The benefit of MPS is in reducing consumables wastage, consolidating and centralising printers, scanners and faxes, and optimising existing print fleets with new equipment where appropriate. This can save up to 30% in spend. “With this in mind, we built a solution to optimise and then best meet government’s needs – employing data security and efficient streamlined documentation methods,” said Ntshinka.
“This modernisation is intended to improve government’s efficiency and effectiveness – freeing up people to deliver better services and making it convenient for citizens to access government services.”
Years of experience has seen Itec Tiyende being awarded RT3 contracts for a number of government departments including: National Treasury, Department of Justice, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), the Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) and Education, Training and Development Practices Sector Education and Training Authority (ETDP SETA), amongst others. Innovative, customised solutions is what sets the ICT expert apart.