[kictanet] State cancels the Laptop Project tender process?

[Walubengo J]

Prof.

You have read my mind...I have been trying to get my (public) institution into the Laptop project with little success.  I suspect all my government links were disconnected after the March elections and re-connecting them is proving to be more slippery than I thought :-)

walu. 
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On Thu, 10/17/13, James Kulubi <jkulubi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] State cancels the Laptop Project tender process?
 To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
 Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 1:01 PM
 
 Walu:I read
 that what has been cancelled is the tender process. The
 process can be re-started by inter alia reducing the
 quantities or alternatively removing certain categories of
 services such as provision of content, training, bandwidth,
 etc.I
 believe that you should be smiling about this since there is
 a
  possibility that locals including institutions like yours
 stand to benefit.RegardsJames 
  
 
     On Thursday,
  17 October 2013, 11:33, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
 wrote:
     NAIROBI, KENYA: The
 Government has now cancelled the Laptop Project tender for
 schools over a budget deficit as bidders exceeded the
 budgetary projections.
 
 Education Cabinet Secretary Prof Jacob Kaimenyi
 announced that the tender process was canceled as lowest
 bidder quoted Ksh 32B against an anticipated budget of Ksh
 20B.
 
 read more @
 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000095732&story_title=jubilee-laptop-project-halted
 
 ~~~~
 Not sure
 if it is true but I think Kenyans need to ask serious
 questions on this.  We
  cannot spend our time and effort putting forward ideas on
 how to best implement a high-risk project and then suddenly
 we are told it is over...kapput.. finito..go
  home. just like that!
 
 For
 example If money is the problem why not modify the project
 to fit 20B the budget?  I still think 20B would be
 sufficient if this project was tilted and tweaked towards
 the form1 student labs or even university students. 
 The idea was noble and timely but execution and target
 audience for me (not Yawe :-) has always been doubtful. 
 
 Right now we are told
 suppliers asked  for 32B Ksh and but we had 20B so
 cancel the project, no questions asked and perhaps wait for
 2-3yrs later to read from the Auditor General about how the
 20B was (mis?)used.
 
 I think
 the CS for ICT should make a pitch to salvage the project in
 the modified form - assuming ofcourse the project was truly
 intended.
 
 walu.
  
 
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