Bids are placed for TPSA's zl.500m new billing system

Six consortiums have now placed their bids for a contract to install a new billing system for TPSA. Analysts estimate the contract to be worth zl. 500 million. The bidders are: Electronic Data Systems (EDS) of USA; CAP Gemini together with Kenan (a billing company affiliated with Lucent Technologies and Computerland); Comarch; IBM with Amdocs (mainframe); Hewlett-Packard with Amdocs (Unix); Prokom with Sofrecom, a company affiliated with France Telecom. Theoretically, the two biggest sector potentates - US companies Amdocs and Lucent, are most likely to win the bid. The standardization of billing systems currently used by TPSA has already begun. The result of the tender is to be announced in mid-September. (Puls Biznesu, p. 11) K.K.