Optimus says its on the verge of winning new integration deals
Optimus Chief Executive Roman Kluska said the firm, which has entered the lucrative systems integration market, was presently bidding for several IT contracts, each of them worth tens of millions of zlotys.
Last month Optimus, one of the country's top computer groups, announced that it had won a zl. 35 million ($8.65 million) tender to provide IT services for police headquarters in the central city of lodz. "At the moment we are bidding for more than 10 tenders …We are almost sure that we have won some of them. That should have an impact on our earnings already in the fourth quarter of the year," Kluska said while at an economic forum in the southern town of Krynica.
Optimus, whose partner in systems integration is U.S.-based Lockheed Martin, saw its net profit plunge to zl. 2.3 million ($590,000) in the first half of the year against zl. 26 million ($ 6.6 million) in the same period of 1998.
Kluska gave no earnings forecasts for the full year.
"As far as generating profits are concerned, Optimus's position over the longer term is stabilized and I think it is not that significant for our shareholders whether we will show this profit a bit earlier or a bit later," Kluska said. "We are sure to see the impact of the heavy investment that we made in recent years into integration systems as well as into the internet and telecommunications systems."
Last month Optimus, one of the country's top computer groups, announced that it had won a zl. 35 million ($8.65 million) tender to provide IT services for police headquarters in the central city of lodz. "At the moment we are bidding for more than 10 tenders …We are almost sure that we have won some of them. That should have an impact on our earnings already in the fourth quarter of the year," Kluska said while at an economic forum in the southern town of Krynica.
Optimus, whose partner in systems integration is U.S.-based Lockheed Martin, saw its net profit plunge to zl. 2.3 million ($590,000) in the first half of the year against zl. 26 million ($ 6.6 million) in the same period of 1998.
Kluska gave no earnings forecasts for the full year.
"As far as generating profits are concerned, Optimus's position over the longer term is stabilized and I think it is not that significant for our shareholders whether we will show this profit a bit earlier or a bit later," Kluska said. "We are sure to see the impact of the heavy investment that we made in recent years into integration systems as well as into the internet and telecommunications systems."
