SIS delays push back border control changes

On Friday during the EU summit, however, it was announced that the control will be abolished from December 31 2007. In order to join SIS Poland has to fulfill a number of requirements including building and adjusting information systems for data exchange between countries. Work on the system is not going smoothly. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (MSWiA) is responsible for the SIS implementation, and it trusted the design of Polish SIS components to the National Police Headquarters (KGP) which announced a tender. At first there were doubts whether a tender for this project could even be made, then the requirements posed for the companies turned out to be inoperable. The tender was won by HP. What is interesting, however, is that Wasko offered a price that was half of the winning bid, but lost because it received 0 out of 25 points for functional requirements. Wasko and IBM are both unhappy with their evaluations prompting an investigation by The Public Procurement Office. (Puls Biznesu p.6) M.M.