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The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) continues to pay for\u00a0certain components of the already paid $72 million software contract awarded in 2012.<\/p>\n
SSNIT Director-General, Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang said there are running cost the Trust is incurring with every month that passes by.<\/p>\n
He told Evans Mensah on Joy FM\u2019s Top Story Thursday, he has been reviewing the contract since he assumed office to ensure value for money.<\/p>\n
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The SSNIT boss said he wants to fix the gaps in execution of the contract because of the initial commitment made by the Trust.<\/p>\n
The revelation of the actual cost of SSNIT\u2019s software contract has sparked public outrage.<\/p>\n
The contract was to replace the manual nature of work at the Trust with complete automation.<\/p>\n
It was to provide superior services to SSNIT customers, reduce member enrolment cycle through forms, provide effective reporting solution, achieve real time processing of contribution reports and reduce benefit processing time.<\/p>\n
Out of the 10 companies that bidded for the contract, Perfect Business Systems and Silverlake Consortium was chosen.<\/p>\n
The initial contract sum signed in 2012 was $34 million but within a four-year period it shot up to over $72 million.<\/p>\n
Joy News has gathered the change in cost was because the software provided by the company was not fit for the work it was to do.<\/p>\n
As a result, an additional $38 million was spent in remodeling the software to suitably deliver to the satisfaction of SSNIT.<\/p>\n
Just when sections of Ghanaians thought only $72 million was spent on the software, the SSNIT boss said the Trust continues to pay some money for certain components of the contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have had to read most contracts that I have to pay on\u201d he announced.<\/p>\n
Dr Tenkorang said he is concerned about how the Trust can fix the gaps in the contract implementation at a minimum to no cost.<\/p>\n
He said there are many services that the contractor is providing that cost SSNIT every month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve all agreed that there are certain clauses that doesn\u2019t buy us much [but] the important thing is that they [contractor] are willing to engage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Inspite of all the costs incurred, Dr Tenkorang confirmed the system is still not working.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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