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Financial Services Department– Procurement Section
370 Helen Joseph Street
Pretoria
Request for Quote (RFQ)
Description of services Required:
Issued by: Professional Services
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Data Quality Specialist
Date of issue 2026-04-24
Closing date: 2026-05-08@12H00
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1. Background
The Enterprise Information Management Programme is currently on a journey to fully
establish its Information Management Capabilities to effectively manage data as an asset
in the Bank, execute on the Information Strategy and to address data requirements in
the Tier1 Programmes.
2. Objective of this Scope of Work
The Data Management Specialists 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.
3. Scope of Services Definition
The scope will include but will not be limited to:
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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
Bill Rate per
hour [ZAR]
1. Information
Management
Data Quality
Specialist
01 July 2026
30 June 2027
Full-time
2,160 hours
R700
• To profile data assets, based on defined data quality dimensions relevant to the business process or problem such as accuracy, completeness, consistency, reliability and timeliness.
• To assess the level to which data is fit for purpose for its intended use and remediate any data quality shortcomings as per data quality thresholds.
• To assess the business impact of the identified data quality issues to determine the significance of the problems to business operations.
• To conduct root-cause analysis to identified data quality issues in order to address the challenges at source.
• To conduct an assessment on data quality maturity levels within the SARB against best practices.
• To monitor, measure and compare the Data Quality assessment results against the data requirements.
• To define and implement data quality measurements and metrics for the critical data elements to support reliable decision making.
• To monitor, measure and report the data quality levels to create the necessary awareness and understanding of reliability of data.
• To enable the improvement of the data quality levels by means of guiding and training data owners, data stewards and data users in all aspects of data quality management (e.g., definition of data quality business rules, data quality service levels, profiling, analysis and assessment of data quality)
• To remediate data quality issues to limit the reoccurrence of the data quality issues.
• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data quality awareness across the organisation and support reliable decision making.
• To develop and maintain reporting dashboards, issue tracking, and monitor the technical status of the data quality.
• To develop reports pertaining to data quality management and associated activities.
• To drive the automation of data quality management processes and functions
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Note:
All CVs submitted in response to this RFQ must adhere to the estimated rate specified. Any CV that
exceeds the specified rate range with more than 15% may be subject to disqualification.
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
Minimum Qualification Required:
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management
• Information Systems, Computer Engineering OR equivalent
• A relevant data management certification (e.g. CDMP Associate)
• Minimum of five to eight years’ experience in a data management environment
The following will be an added advantage:
Competencies:
• Industry, organisational and business awareness knowledge, and skill
• Industry, organisational and business awareness skill
• Continuous improvement knowledge and skill Quality assurance knowledge
• Quality assurance skills
• Continuous improvement knowledge
• Continuous improvement skills
• Continued learning and/or professional development knowledge and skills.
• Continued learning and/or professional development knowledge.
• Continued learning and/or professional development skills.
• Business continuity planning knowledge
• Business continuity planning skills
• Data Quality strategy knowledge
• Data Quality strategy skills
• EIM planning skills.
• EIM legislation and governance, risk, and compliance knowledge • EIM legislation and governance, risk, and compliance skills
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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.
6. Reporting
The Data Management Specialist will report to Lebohang Bambo and Shavani Naidoo
7. Post Implementation Support
Not applicable.
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
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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
Customer has advised the Supplier that the prospective candidate has been
shortlisted by the Customer.
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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