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Department: Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism environmental mandate and efforts will be made to integrate with the department's climate change strategies. Environmental and climate response priorities cut across multiple ESIEID initiatives. DEDEAT would like to ensure that environmental considerations and climate change response are integrated across all development programmes, particularly in infrastructure development and economic initiatives. This way, DEDEAT will contribute to provincial development priorities while maintaining focus on its core mandate of driving sustainable economic development, environmental protection, and tourism growth in the Eastern Cape. 5 PROCUREMENT The department%u2019s procurement will be aligned to the department procurement plans and the Supply Chain Management (SCM) policy to be implemented. The procurement and contract management still remain a target and the department will robustly look at this area in its quest to implement the cost containment measures and realise efficiency gains. The department will continue to liaise with Provincial Treasury for all matters relating to SCM for guidance. The department will continue to uphold the principles of procurement by ensuring that all contracts are awarded in a manner that is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive, and cost effective. The department will continue to ensure that the procurement of goods and services is done in a timely manner and will adhere to the provincial drive to support township economies and meet the targets set for preferential procurement and further intensify the payment of suppliers within 30 days in line with Treasury Regulation 8.2.3. The department will continue to implement the LED Strategy focusing on local procurement for almost all services on tenders so that bids will be awarded in a manner, which is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive, and cost effective. Procurement of goods and services will be done in line within the requirement of PPPFA together with departmental procurement policies. The department will ensure that all contracts are subjected to market-price analysis and the concept of value for money is the core driver when negotiating contracts. %uf0b7 Development of the Wild Coast Coastal Development Plan amounting to R1.5 million starts from April 2025 and is planned to be awarded in July 2025 for this project; %uf0b7 To conduct Leopard Scoping Research - Phase 2 plan that amounts to R1 million that starts from April 2025 and the bid is planned to be awarded in August 2025; %uf0b7 To appoint service provider for implementation of ORT Climate Change Project plan that amounts to R2 million that starts from April 2025 up to the awarding of the bid in August 2025; %uf0b7 Appointment of a service provider to provide physical security services for Head office and regional offices plan for a period of 36 months that amount to R24 million that starts from May to August 2025; %uf0b7 To Appoint of a service provider for ePermit Application Support, Maintenance and Hosting plan that amount to R1.3 million that starts from April 2025 up to bid award in June 2025; %uf0b7 To provide cleaning services for Head office and regional offices plan for a period of 36 months that amount to R21 million that starts from November 2025 up to the bid award in March 2026; %uf0b7 Appointment of a suitable service provider render asset lease finance solution plan for a period of 60 months that amount to R50 million that starts from April 2025 up to the bid award in August 2025; 622