Council For Scientific And Industrial Research Tender

Tenders are invited for Upgrading Of The Ethekwini Municipality Electronic Booking System (Ebs) That Was Developed By The Csir In 2015/16 CSIR undertakes GIS based facility location planning on behalf of municipalities and other authorities. In undertaking such projects and analysis and identifying facility backlogs it is often necessary to undertake certain supporting actions. In the case of eThekwini it was found that the booking of community halls and other facilities was still undertaken using a paper based system that was distributed across several sites. As a result there is potential inefficient use of facilities and very poor reporting data regarding historic and current usage data as it require human intervention to record and report on the usage patterns over time with no direct spatial representation of data available. A review of the latter is essential before proceeding to implementation of new facilities, closure or upgrading. To this end as part of the wider facility planning and development support to eThekwini by CSIR, an Electronic Booking System (EBS) for the municipality was scoped and the development by a third-party developer was undertaken and installed in 2015/16. Due to a range of factors the system was not brought into operation at the time. The requirement is to make the system operational in 2021, however some of the software components are no-longer compatible with current system requirements and require updating