But IBM said in a statement that "in the request for proposals, the government said it did not want to overspend to achieve slightly superior technical features."
'The budget,' he told MPs, 'has been framed so that financing comes first; expenditure is the residual.' The Bank of Zambia will simply say no when government ministries seek to overspend.
Last week the government said it would underwrite an overspend of about Pounds 4m by the Tec on YT this year.