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Financial Services Department– Procurement Section
370 Helen Joseph Street
Pretoria
Request for Quote (RFQ)
Description of services Required:
For the provision of various roles for EIM:
EIM Senior Data Quality Specialist
Senior Reference and Master Data Management Specialists EIM Data Analyst Discovery & Profiling
EIM Data Lead
Date of issue 21 May 2026
Closing date: 29 May 2026 @ 12:00 p.m.
Issued by: Tshepiso Morema
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1. Background
The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Financial Services Department (FSD), in
partnership with the Business Systems and Technology Department (BSTD), have
embarked on a multi-year programme made up of initiatives to modernise its back-office
capabilities. The Human Resources Department (HRD) was the first implementation on the
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Roadmap Programme which went live with Phase 2 in
2025. The next initiative within this Programme is the Financial Services Department with
the implementation of a unified financial planning and reporting solution, which will
consolidate the needs of two key divisions within the FSD: Financial Planning and Analysis
and Financial Reporting.
2. Objective of this Scope of Work
The main purpose of this position is to provide dedicated data quality services on the ERP
Roadmap (EPM Cloud Solution Project) for 18 months. This resource will be:
• Identifying Data Management solutions to solve business problems, bringing
business and information management together, translating business requirements into
data management solution requirements and conveying the business requirements into the
data and information management practices.
• Focusing on business optimisation and investigating more efficient ways of working
and organising resources to achieve business goals.
• Bringing together different elements of the business by performing a consolidation
and innovation role in order to create new or different alternatives and solutions
3. Scope of Services Definition
The scope will include but will not be limited to:
• To define organisational data quality strategy and framework within the SARB
against best practices
• To capacitate, build data quality skills and drive the data quality practice within the
SARB
• To lead and action data quality profiling, cleansing and remediation focusing on the
condition of data based on factors such as accuracy, completeness, consistency,
reliability and whether it's up to date.
• To assess the level to which data is fit for purpose for its intended use then develop
strategies and remediations to address any shortcomings.
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• To deliver the Data Quality programme and its various initiatives across the SARB
organisation and subsidiaries where mandated.
• To conduct an assessment on data quality maturity levels within the SARB against
best practices.
• To develop standards, guidelines, processes, procedures for the quality of critical
data elements within the South African Reserve Bank.
• To develop and promote data quality awareness across the organisation
• To define data quality measurement and metrics for the critical data elements to
support reliable decision making
• To monitor, measure and report the data quality levels to create necessary
awareness and understanding of reliability of data
• To enable the improvement of the data quality levels by means of guiding and
training data stewards in all aspects of data quality (e.g. definition of data quality
business rules, data quality service levels, profiling, analysis and assessment of
data quality)
• To play an oversight role in the remediation of data quality issues
• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data quality
awareness across the organisation and support reliable decision making
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The service provider is required to submit a maximum of 3 CV’s that are suitably qualified and experienced resources in order to fulfil the requirements set out below:
4. Consultant Resource
Service Lines Resource
Level Start Date End Date
Days
Allocated
Rate per hour
[ZAR]
Data Quality
Specialist
EIM Senior Data
Quality Specialist 01 Jun 2026 30 November
2027 Full-time
Market related :
x 3,240 hours
Information
Management
Senior Reference
and Master Data
Management
Specialists
01 Jun 2026 30 November
2027 Full-time
Market related :
x 3,240 hours
Data Analyst
Discovery &
Profiling
EIM Data Analyst
Discovery &
Profiling
01 June
2026
30 November
2027 Full-time
Market related :
x 3240 hours
Data Engineer/
Data Lead EIM Data Lead 01 Jun 2026 30 Nov 2027
Full-time
3240
hours
Market related
Disclaimer – Rate per hour is inclusive of the following as set out in Part III Schedule D
clause 4&5 :
a) Resource rate;
b) Supplier mark-up;
c) Leave (Annual and Sick leave in accordance to Basic Condition of Employment
Section 198 of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (LRA); and
Employee Benefits (i.e. Medical/pension fund etc.)
To be considered for this position (Data Quality Specialist), candidates must have:
• B degree or equivalent (e.g., BCom Informatics, BSc Information Systems, BSc Informatics,
BTech); and
• Data Management Certification (e.g. DAMA CDMP) will be an added advantage
• Minimum eight years’ experience in business analysis; and
• Solid exposure to Agile methodology.
• Advanced knowledge of Information Management Business Analysis (minimum of 5 years’
experience in Information Management).
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Competences:
• Knowledge of the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) (essential)
• Basic software applications (e.g., Microsoft (MS) Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint,
Internet and e-mail) (essential)
• Skilled in using Data Quality tools (required)
• Analytical thinking
• Understand and analyse business processes
• Communication skills (verbal and written)
• Facilitation skills
• Quality orientation
• Negotiation skills
• Interpersonal relationship building and maintaining skills
• Facilitation of workshops skills
• To build customer loyalty
• Strong team player
• Motivated self-starter
• Enterprising
Key deliverables:
• Develop Business Cases
• Business Analysis Work Plan;
• Business Requirements Specification Document;
• Functional Requirements Specification Document;
• Information Matrix;
• User Stories;
• Change Request Document (where applicable);
• Participate in Quality Assurance;
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing.
• Business Analysis Measure and Feedback Report;
• Review Training documentation;
Day rates as specified herein shall be based on no less than 8 hours per day.
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1. Scope of Services Definition (Senior Reference and Master Data Management
Specialists)
The scope will include but will not be limited to:
• To define and document reference data, master data requirements, business rules,
measurements and metrics for data domains to create an authoritative source of
truth for critical business information to enable effective decision making and
operational effectiveness.
• To define and manage master data relationships, hierarchies, and structures to
enable integrated entity views and support advanced analytics.
• To implement standards, guidelines, processes, procedures for reference and master
data within the South African Reserve Bank.
• To define and implement data matching and merging business rules to create a
single version of the truth
• To create, maintain, manage and integrate a reference and master data environment
that enables the standardisation of business information.
• To create the data taxonomies, catalogue, dictionary and manage the overall
metadata in scope.
• To monitor, measure, remediate, and report on reference and master data quality
metrics to ensure sustained data quality and identify areas of non-conformance.
• To develop, manage and maintain a reference data repository and a master data
repository for data domains across the SARB
• To contribute to the development of reference and master data standards,
frameworks and standard operating procedures
• To implement appropriate governance controls to maintain and manage reference
and master data
• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote reference and
master data management across the organisation.
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Minimum Qualification Required:
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Management
OR equivalent;
• A minimum of five to eight years’ experience in a data management environment
The following will be an added advantage:
Key performance measures:
• Competencies:
• Analysis and problem solving
• Effective communication
• Planning and organising
• Service and stakeholder focus
• Conceptual thinking
• Drive for results
• Attention to detail
2. Scope of Services Definition (EIM Data Analyst Discovery & Profiling)
The scope will include but will not be limited to:
To discover data by applying data discovery mechanisms to establish the data assets, within the context of the business value drivers, processes and data products, within scope.
To identify data profiles of data assets discovered to determine data sensitivity, quality, context of use and legislated aspects to inform the data assets handling protocols.
To implement standards, guidelines, processes, procedures for data analysis within scope.
To establish relationships between data elements and their impact on the business.
To conduct data analysis to determine various categories of data and information.
To apply data valuation techniques to determine the importance of the data to business and the probability of reuse.
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To generate regular reports, deliver actionable insights, and provide timely status updates and information to support the management of data domains.
To provide inputs (legislative prescripts, sensitivity classifications, access/authorisation rules, etc.) as data transitions from source to destination and data at rest.
To be considered for this position (EIM Data Analyst Discovery & Profiling), candidates must
have:
• B degree or equivalent (e.g., BCom Informatics, BSc Information Systems, BSc Informatics,
BTech); and
• Data Management Certification (e.g. DAMA CDMP) will be an added advantage
• Minimum eight years’ experience in business analysis; and
• Solid exposure to Agile methodology.
• Advanced knowledge of Information Management Business Analysis (minimum of 5 years’
experience in Information Management).
Key performance measures:
• Knowledge of the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) (essential)
• Basic software applications (e.g., Microsoft (MS) Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Internet
and e-mail) (essential)
• Skilled in using Data Quality tools (required)
• Analytical thinking
• Understand and analyse business processes
• Communication skills (verbal and written)
• Facilitation skills
• Quality orientation
• Negotiation skills
• Interpersonal relationship building and maintaining skills
• Facilitation of workshops skills
• To build customer loyalty
• Strong team player
• Motivated self-starter
• Enterprising
Key deliverables:
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• Develop Business Cases
• Business Analysis Work Plan;
• Business Requirements Specification Document;
• Functional Requirements Specification Document;
• Information Matrix;
• User Stories;
• Change Request Document (where applicable);
• Participate in Quality Assurance;
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing.
• Business Analysis Measure and Feedback Report;
• Review Training documentation;
3. Objective of this Scope of Work (Data Engineer)
The Data Engineer will drive improvement of the data management maturity levels and
provide the necessary technical support within the South African Reserve Bank Group
(SARB Group) to support reliable and effective decision-making, appropriate usage and
protection thereof.
4. Scope of Services Definition
The scope will include but will not be limited to:
• To lead the Data Migration Workstream
• To facilitate review sessions with Business stakeholders, Implementation Partner, and
the Technical Team
• To review and facilitate sign off for data migration artifacts by all the relevant signatories
• To guide and facilitate activities and deliverables in the data migration workstream
• To develop, construct, test and maintain architectures.
• To ensure architectures will support the requirements of business.
• To discover opportunities for data acquisition and sharing.
• To develop data set processes for data modelling, mining and production.
• To employ a variety of languages and tools to marry systems together.
• To recommend way to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.
• To prepare data for use in predictive and prescriptive modelling.
• To conduct research to answer industry and business questions.
• To leverage volumes of data from internal and external to answer business questions.
• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management
across the organisation and support reliable decision making and appropriate data usage.
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• To participate and provide technical support in cross organisational activities relating
to any of the above mentioned data management activities.
• To provide regular progress reports as per stakeholder requirements and present data
management updates in various forums as required.
Minimum Qualification Required:
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Management OR equivalent;
• A minimum of five to eight years’ experience in a data management environment
The following will be an added advantage:
Competencies:
• Analysis and problem solving
• Effective communication
• Planning and organising
• Service and stakeholder focus
• Conceptual thinking
• Drive for results
• Attention to detail
Key performance measures:
• To develop, construct, test and maintain data pipelines architectures.
• To ensure interoperability of systems by designing and maintaining integration
patterns (APIs, etc.), data exchange formats, and integration protocols.
• To design and build data pipelines that are robust, modular, scalable, deployable,
reproducible and versioned for data domains and business domains.
• To quality assure data pipelines implementations to ensure adherence to data
engineering frameworks and standards.
• To recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
• To monitor and optimise domain-specific data pipelines to ensure reliable data
availability and sustained performance over time.
• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data
management across the organisation and support reliable decision making and
appropriate data usage.
• To maintain documentation for data pipelines, integration processes, and
interoperability.
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• To manage data growth patterns to plan infrastructure needs, ensure compliance with
retention frameworks, and support responsible data sharing.
• To enable and support the technical implementation of data management
capabilities, including, data quality, metadata management, master and reference
data management, data architecture and data modelling, data security and privacy,
data lifecycle and retention management, data cataloguing and lineage, and analytics
enablement.
Day rates as specified herein shall be based on no less than 8 hours per day.
5. Training and Transfer of Knowledge
Training and knowledge transfer documents to be submitted and presented to SARB
in a traceable and accessible repository to enable smooth handover to SARB
employees when need arises and or at the end of each project.
6. Reporting
All consultants will report directly to EIM Manager.
7. Post Implementation Support
As applicable.
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8. Terms and Conditions
8.1. Standard terms and conditions of the Temporary Employment Services (TES) Agreement
shall govern this RFQ.
8.2. The following additional terms and conditions will apply:
8.2.1. TES Panel Engagement model
a) In the event that the Customer requires a TES resource, a competitive process will
be followed in which the Customer will execute a procurement process. A request
for quotation (RFQ) process will be followed to obtain proposals/CVs from
Suppliers on the TES Panel for a specific resource role.
b) The panel engagement model will be one that focuses on quality over quantity in
that the Customer will request a limited number of from each Supplier on the TES
panel (based on the category). The Suppliers on the TES panel will be required to
submit a proposal/CV as well as any other required documentation for the provision
of a TES resource for the specific role/s.
c) The Supplier will therefore endeavour to put forward their best available candidates
for each role needed by the Customer.
d) A clearly defined objective and scope of work required minimum qualifications,
minimum years of experience, SOW duration including expected availability dates,
and expected deliverables, among other things, together with the nature and
reasons for the temporary engagement, will be published for the Supplier to
respond to. The Supplier must respond to the Customer request within 7 (seven)
Business Days.
e) Failure by the Supplier to respond within the specified time will result in the
Supplier’s proposal not being considered.
f) The Suppliers will ensure that a prospective candidate makes him/herself available
for a formal interview on the proposed interview date. The Customer will give
reasonable notice of the interview date to the Supplier. The Parties will ensure that
the interview takes place within 10 (ten) Business Days from the date that the
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Customer has advised the Supplier that the prospective candidate has been
shortlisted by the Customer.
9. Temporary Employment Service
9.1.1. Supplier will ensure that the temporary employment resources provided by the Supplier
have the necessary tools, for example, laptop (including but not limited to Office 365 (MS
Project or MS Visio as required), anti-virus software, One Drive, etc.) and cell phone,
and if the Service is performed remotely, sufficient data and reliable connectivity to
perform the Service.
9.1.2. In the event that the Service is rendered at a Customer premises, the Customer will
provide parking, a workstation, excluding a laptop and cell phone, connectivity, printing
facilities, etc.
10. Pricing
10.1.1. The Service Fee proposed by the Supplier must be based on a transparent model, be
comparative and market related, and the Supplier may be required to demonstrate how
they approached determining the rates and how the rates were benchmarked against IT
industry rates. The model must clearly indicate the cost elements that constitute the
overall rate per resource as follows:
Cost Breakdown element Weight
Resource rate
Employee Benefits *
Mark-up*
Leave benefits
Rate 100
* The Employee Benefit and Mark-Up is calculated as a percentage of the Resource
Rate.
10.1.2. In the event that the supplier bidder does not provide the resource with Employee Benefits
the cost breakdown must be as follows:
10.1.3. The Supplier as the employer of the temporary employment resource will be liable for
payment of the temporary employment resource’s renumeration payment of overtime, leave
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and any other employment benefits that may be payable to the temporary employment
resource.
11. Selection
11.1. The Customer will upon receiving the Supplier proposals review and identify the best suited
TES resource for temporary deployment. An interview with the shortlisted and further
selected resource and/or reference checks may be conducted, at the sole discretion of the
Customer.
11.2. The Supplier will advise all prospective candidates upfront of the Customer’s vetting and
security requirements and will not propose any prospective candidate that is unwilling or
unable to comply with the said requirements. Although the Customer will carry the cost of
its own vetting requirements, the Supplier and or the prospective candidate will be
responsible for its own costs in attending to and completing the vetting forms and attending
vetting appointments.
11.3. The Supplier undertakes to, at its own costs, conduct regular credit, qualification verification,
criminal record, and employment history, as well as reference checks for all TES resources
proposed/provided prior to proposing/putting forward such resources.
11.4. The shortlisted resources will be invited for interviews and will be selected based on the
outcome of the interview.
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I, __________________________, (ID _________________________________) hereby declare
the following:
1. I am contracted by ________________________________ (Contracting House) and placed
at the South African Reserve Bank as __________________ on a full-time basis.
2. As per the agreement between SARB and the Contracting House, I am allocated to the role
at SARB in my full capacity.
3. I am not considering SARB (via my Contracting House) as one of multiple clients.
4. I confirm that I am not contracted by any other employer or Contracting House.
5. I confirm that this declaration reflects true and accurate information that I consider as binding
on my conscious.
6. I understand that breach of this undertaking may result in legal action.
7. I acknowledge that the South African Resave Bank has reserved all its rights.
Signed at _____________on this ___ day of ______________ 2024.
___________________________
Signature