KGHM opts for team effort

KGHM has awarded the tender for the supply of a production management IT system to a team of Prokom, SAP and IBM, but the decision is subject to the approval of KGHM's new supervisory board.

"Prokom's offer was the best from the content point of view, but the two companies that lost will nevertheless work on the parts of the system where their offers were better than Prokom's. A lot of work will also be done by SAP and IBM, who will profit mostly from the contract," a person close to the project told Puls Biznesu.

Part of the order will be carried out by HP and Computerland. The latter has been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons of late; its recent financial results were weaker than expected and it is involved in a dispute with the Agency for the Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture (ARMiR) over a contract for a subsidies-control system.

Computerland, which is run by Tomasz Sielicki, was formerly part of Krzysztof Krauze's Prokom. Now, the two Warsaw Stock Exchange-listed firms often compete in tenders for IT solutions. Prokom has carried out IT contracts for, among others, the Social Security Institution (ZUS), TP and PZU.

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