Five bidding for zl.200 million TPSA billing contract

Five companies have emerged as contenders for the zl.200 million contract to supply a billing system for telecoms giant Telekomunikacja Polska (TPSA). The five companies that beat the Monday deadline for submitting offers are HP, IBM, Amdocs, EDC and Cap Gemini. TPSA is expected soon to present a timetable for selecting one of the offers. The billing system is to be implemented by the end of the year, with the Internet module scheduled to start operating in September. Market analysts tip two of the contenders as having the best chance to win the contract, namely American-Israeli company Amdocs, and Cap Gemini, which is believed to have the support of TPSA's strategic investor, France Telecom. (Puls Biznesu, p. 3) M.T.