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New laptop tender begins tomorrow

Jun 16, 2011 News

The government will tomorrow re-advertise  for the supply of laptops under the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project, and will be asking for different specifications in hopes of attracting a larger volume of bidders.
The new bids will be opened on July 19 after going to tender on Friday June 17.
Advertisements for new bids are being launched following what Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said were “a series of engagements” with both bidders and “an extended group of stakeholders.”
One meeting was with bidders alone, while another meeting was held with specialists in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and persons with commercial interest in ICTs, Dr Luncheon stated.
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 largely met the requirements.
A decision was taken to open a new bidding process, involving modified 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, though, not satisfying all the requirements.
However, the Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh had said that the government decided not to give CCS the contract, and to instead move to re-tender.
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 originally 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 retender 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 $1.8 billion on the laptop project this year, and plans to distribute an estimated 27, 000 laptops. Families were given until last Tuesday to apply for the laptops, but with the decision to re-tender for the supply of the laptops, applications have reopened.
The Finance Minister said that up to early this week there were some 33,000 applicants, many of them single parents and people in the low income bracket.

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