Hewlett-Packard wins first stage of IACS tender to supply IT system
The tender procedures for creating the Integrated Administration and Control
System (IACS) is well advanced. IACS is a system that will be used to
collect information about land under cultivation and the numbers of cattle
that farmers own. Only once this information has been collected can the EU
will pay direct subsidies to farmers. Hewlett-Packard has won the first
tender and will supply the entire IT system at a price of zl. 131.6 million.
The next stage of the tender, which will soon be announced, is to make an
aerial map of Poland, either by plane or satellite. The expected cost of
this will be around euro 100 million. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3) P.W.
