Prokom to finalize negotiations with PZU

While details of the projects to be carried out over the next years are yet to be determined, a source close to the deal revealed that the remuneration of the consultants has already been agreed upon, laying a base for setting the overall prices of the planned services. According to some estimates, extrapolating the value of the first stage of the project, the contract will be in the order of zł.800 million. However, an anonymous source commented, "You cannot calculate like this. The value of the initial offer [in a tender won by Prokom in mid 2003] was zł.400 million." Furthermore, under the agreement to be signed, PZU will be allowed to have other parties provide components of the system should they find the quality of Prokom's solutions unacceptable. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) M.K.