{"id":42787,"date":"2026-01-07T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/transport-ministers-welcome-high-court-order-on-preferred-bidder-for-the-driving-license-card-machines-tender\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:55:09","slug":"transport-ministers-welcome-high-court-order-on-preferred-bidder-for-the-driving-license-card-machines-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/transport-ministers-welcome-high-court-order-on-preferred-bidder-for-the-driving-license-card-machines-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Ministers welcome High Court Order on preferred bidder for the Driving License Card Machines tender."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms. Barbara Creecy and the Transport Deputy Minister, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have welcomed the High Court&#039;s declaratory order that sets aside the appointment of IDEMIA as a preferred bidder for the Driving License Card Machines tender.On 6 January 2026, the Gauteng North High Court declared that the tender was irregular, invalid, unlawful and unenforceable. Consequently, the tender has been set aside by the court.<\/p>\n<p>The Department has been ordered to re-advertise the tender within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Pending the appointment of a successful service provider under the re-advertised tender, the Department has also been allowed by the court to outsource the services of printing and issuing of driving license (cards) to the Department of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#039;s declaratory order is based on the Department&#039;s court application following the findings of the AGSA that pointed out irregularities in the tender process.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the court&#039;s declaratory&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76037&#038;page=transport-ministers-welcome-high-court-order-on-preferred-bidder-for-the-driving-license-card-machines-tender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms. Barbara Creecy and the Transport Deputy Minister, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have welcomed the High Court&#039;s declaratory order that sets aside the appointment of IDEMIA as a preferred bidder for the Driving License Card Machines tender.On 6 January 2026, the Gauteng North High Court declared that the tender was irregular, invalid, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Drivers-licence-card-printer_5--e1683193457299-600x400.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-42787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Drivers-licence-card-printer_5--e1683193457299-600x400.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}