Education Ministry's computer tender done, belatedly

The value of the offer, which will be financed mainly from EU funds, amounts to zl.37.8 million. This is definitely a success for the companies, however not for the officers organizing the tender. This straightforward tender took over five months to be finalized, while the computers should already have been operating in the schools for a month. Since the sole distributor of Macintosh computers in Poland is SAD, the specifications for the tender were much easier than those required for PC tenders, where the number of the bidders is much larger. This is the first tender finalized by the Education Ministry in six months, and it is still working on two others related to computer equipment, with a total value of zl.300 million. (Puls Biznesu, p. 9) A.K.