GOOD Statement by Roscoe Palm,
GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor
7 February 2025
The GOOD Party calls on the City of Cape Town to initiate an investigation into the wasteful expenditure of R24 million on a failed Fleet Management Information System (FMIS), an initiative that has yielded no benefits, despite years of funding.
Launched in 2018, under the leadership of the previous Director of Fleet Management, Bevan Van Schoor, the FMIS was marketed as the modernisation of the City’s fleet operations. It was intended to seamlessly integrate with the existing SAP Plant Maintenance system (SAP PM) to improve efficiency, but instead became a costly failure after remaining unimplemented by 2022.
FMIS is a software system that allows organisations to efficiently manage their fleet of vehicles by tracking their location, performance, maintenance needs, fuel consumption, and driver behaviour, providing real-time data through a centralised platform.
However, fundamental IT infrastructure, management protocols, and operational processes necessary for its success were never properly established. The attempt to integrate the FMIS with SAP PM led to the permanent loss of approximately 30% of historical data, compromising the accuracy and integrity of the remaining system records.
120 Samsung tablets, purchased in 2021 for the project, remain unused, or are being used out of scope.
Despite its non-functionality, the CoCT continued to fund the FMIS project for five years, accumulating an astronomical R24 million price tag, having realised none of its intended outcomes.
The expenditure breakdown includes:
FMIS-WBS- CPX:0010654-F1 – R1,773,446.19
FMIS-WBS- CPX:0010654-F2 – R22,256,547.16
120 Tablet devices WBS – CPX:0010654 – F2.TD: Approximately R1.5 million
MMC for Corporate Services Theresa Uys must account for the fruitless and wasteful of a vanity project that has served no function or purpose.
GOOD calls for a thorough and transparent investigation into fruitless and wasteful expenditure in the Fleet Management department of Corporate Services.
Media Enquiries:
Roscoe Palm, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor
Cell: 073 540 0634
Email: roscoe_palm@outlook.com
Samantha Jackson, GOOD: Media Manager
Cell: 083 5509875
Email: samantha@forgood.org.za