Global giants line up for Polish universities' IT tender

The academies decided to make one joint tender, in which three bidders - ComputerLand(CL), Oracle and a consortium of Siemens, SAP and Prokom - still have chances of succeeding. "We know that other universities are closely watching the tender," said Anna Poreda from PW. Experience acquired during this contest might result in subsequent orders and, "This is a fight for prestige. It has additional significance bearing in mind the current fight between Oracle and SAP in the world," said one market analyst. The consortium submitted the lowest bid amounting to zł.66 million for implementing the system. Oracle asked for zł.72 million, while CL estimated its services at zł.170 million. The universities had hoped to pay zł.35 million for the project, which should be concluded by the end of 2005. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 4) M.M.