Polish Oil and Gas to sign contract with German SAP

The custom-made Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software package will be ready before PGNiG floats its shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), which is planned by the end of 2004. The value of the contract is under negotiations, but initially, it was zł. 300 million. "PGNiG has lowered the price significantly. Even though it will still be one of the largest projects of this kind in Poland and one of the largest IT contracts in 2004," says a source close to the deal, adding that the company will have to pay around zł.100 million for the implementation, licensing, training and maintenance. Prokom or Computerland are the most likely domestic companies from the IT sector to gain from this contract potentially acting as subcontractors. (Puls Biznesu, p. 6) A.K.