PZU gives until Friday for preliminary IT tender bids

The country's largest insurance company, PZU, will await until February 14 for the submission of preliminary offers for the supply of the group's new IT system. It is already known that bids will be placed by five consortia, and the favorites will be Computer Services Corporation (including Prokom) and TIA (including IBM). The actual tender will be commenced, "most probably in March. We need around a month and a half for analysis of the initial offers," said PZU spokesman Tomasz Fil. The winning IT system will be announced later in the year. The value of the tender is estimated at zl. 500 million. However, with additional work and the supply of equipment, its value will amount to zl. 1 billion. (Puls Biznesu, p. 4) A.C.