| The One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project office announced yesterday that it will announce the new call for tenders for the supply of laptops this weekend.This means that the call for bids come two weeks late given the first date the government said the re-tender announcement would go out.In a statement, the OLPF office said the new tender was formulated following a series of high-level, intensive consultations with a wide range of Information and Communication Technology suppliers and industry experts from across the country.“The open, consultative approach being taken is in keeping with the Government’s commitment to making the OLPF a distinctively national programme that consolidates the people’s participation in the promulgation of Guyana’s ICT Agenda,Nike Air Max 2018 Womens, which is a critical pillar driving the building of a more prosperous Guyana,Air Max 97 Silver Bullet For Sale,” the OLPF office stated.The OLPF office said the re-tendering for the Laptops was imperative, as “none of the Bids submitted in the first round of tender were fully compliant with the Tender requirements,” thus annulling that tender.The new Tender notice will be posted over the weekend at www.eprocure.gov.gy and in the press while copies could be requested from the OLPF Central Office at [email protected] or at 161 Lamaha Street, North Cummingsburg Georgetown. The new call for tenders should have gone out on July 19.Under the first advertisement, three bids were submitted. Two of the original bidders did not meet the requirements and the government did not want to settle for the third bidder who it said largely met the requirements.A decision was taken to open a new bidding process, asking for different laptop specifications.Original bids for the supply of the laptops came from Giftland Office Max, Digital Technologies, and CCS. Of the three, only CCS measured up,Adidas Shoes On Sale, though, not satisfying all the requirements.Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh had said that the government decided not to give CCS the contract, and to move to re-tender instead.In re-tendering, the government is moving to adjust the technical specifications for the laptops it wants.Dr Singh said that the specifications the government will now ask companies to bid for would not significantly depart from what was original requested.The Finance Minister pointed to new specifications for the laptops that would now be sought in the re-tendering process.“Some of the issues that will inform the approach to the re-tender will include such issues as the technical specifications of the hardware to be procured, the software specs to be preloaded on the machines and the capacity of the suppliers to offer and service the required warranty provisions. ,The government has budgeted to spend $1.8 billion on the laptop project this year,Air Max 95 Black Leather, and plans to distribute an estimated 27, 000 laptops.Families were given until last Tuesday to apply for the laptops,Nike Air Max 1 Womens Sale, but with the decision to re-tender for the supply of the laptops,Air Max 98 Gundam Price, applications have reopened. |
