Softbank wins CEPIK tender in partnership with Face Technologies

Softbank in consortium with South African Face Technologies are to construct a zł. 230 million IT system for the Central Record of Vehicles and Drivers (CEPiK), which will be the third largest contract won by Ryszard Krauze controlled companies in 2003. Their total value exceed zł. 3 billion. "We hope that negotiations concerning the final shape of the contract will not take more than a few days, which means we should sign the CEPiK deal and start work on the contract next week," said Aleksander Lesz, president of Softbank. The main loser in this race was ComputerLand, which also lost the tender for providing IT system to Insurance Guarantee Fund (UFG) on Friday. The company also recently lost a tender with Prokom/Softbank for constructing an IT system for PKO BP worth zł. 2 billion. "This is the worst period for ComputerLand in years," said Przemysław Sawala-Uryasz. (Parkiet, p. 1) M.M.