[kictanet] Kenya Bureau of Statistics Advertises For Tenders For Free Adobe Reader...

Mon Feb 17 16:17:46 EAT 2014

+1,

I also thought the ICT Authority Board was launched with pomp 3weeks ago and by now they should not be entertaining such tragedy. As  one of our former President used to say , if you must steal, at least steal with some decorum/intelligence. Otherwise you end up embarrassing not just the government but the whole Kenyan  ICT community.

@Adam, provisioning in government speak is the whole chain -design,deploy and maintain.  And the 1,000/= is the cost of buying the Tender document NOT provisioning.  In other words, I would pay the 1,000/=, get the document and quote 10,000,000/= to provide the acrobat reader, which I will ofcourse download for free.  I will be the lowest bidder since my "competitors" are just my sister companies...quoting 10/- higher...you get the drift?

Anyway, the sample online  document is not dated nor signed. So lets just hope it was some digital joke doing rounds on the Net. But then again, this is Kenya and anything is possible.

walu.  

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On Mon, 2/17/14, Ngigi Waithaka <ngigi at at.co.ke> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya Bureau of Statistics Advertises For Tenders For Free Adobe Reader...
 To: jwalu at yahoo.com
 Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 3:04 PM

 The sad question is, where
 is KICTAuthority in all this? The whole point of
 centralizing ICT is to ensure such procurement decisions do
 not pass, and proper guideline or advice given.

 On Mon, Feb 17, 2014
 at 3:01 PM, James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com>
 wrote:

 Adam,
 The Sh1000 is for you to get the "Bid"
 documents not for installing Adobe.
 James

 On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com>
 wrote:

 This is for provisioning, not the
 license.
 It's not totally unreasonable to charge 1k to
 install a piece of software if it's done professionally
 and at scale.

 One would hope that provisioning is happening via an image
 and people aren't installing software individually on
 computers one at a time.

 --Kili - Cloud for
 Africa: kili.io

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 On Mon, Feb
 17, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Josy Ngatia <josyveros at gmail.com>
 wrote:

 I
 Second you on this....!
 It's very discouraging. Unless there was typo of
 the service description from Adobe professional to Adobe
 reader..! Then the service is request is wanting

 On Tue, Feb
 11, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Michael Bullut <main at kipsang.com>
 wrote:

 Greetings Listers,

 I don’t know how corruption smells but this looks like
 it! Read the article here.

 Warm
 regards, 

 Michael Bullut.

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