I agree with Robert, since this are state owned corporations we could gamble with local expertise, how else are we going to build our industries? in any case whenever this corporations run into financial doldrums, the government always bails them out with tax payers money, i agree with Robert First priority to Local Companies.<br>
<br>Kind Regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:14 PM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div></div><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>It is unfortunate that we are already coming up with excuses for why we cannot deliver on this but most unfortunate is that you of all people could thorugh such a large spanner into the works yet your product has received funding with little or not field testing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We all buy tenders and spend many hours completing our responses yet we do not get paid for such activities, what is so difficult with making a pitch? I thought we are in the information age where a young graduate only needs a computer and internet connection to make it big.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lets for once stop being typical Kenyans and think of Bill Gates walking into the IBM offices to sell
MS-DOS.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>PS. Another posting like this and I go off to <a href="http://freelance.com" target="_blank">freelance.com</a> & partner with positive thinking developers, the world has become a village.</div>
</div><div class="im">Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<div class="hm"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="hm"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Agosta Liko <<a href="mailto:agostal@gmail.com" target="_blank">agostal@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robert yawe <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>
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September, 2010 14:38:37<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Commodity Exchange System<br></font></div><div class="im"><br>Robert.<br><br>We usually don't get those contracts because the buying bodies prefer<br>
to get software that's tried / tested / proven .... and rightly so.<br><br>The way I look at this - as a manager, if I was to choose between a<br>local vendor who would have to develop from scratch and a foreign<br>vendor whose solution is running lets say 30 clients .... I would pick<br>
the foreign vendor 99 out of 100 times.<br><br>Its all about risk ... and as we all know "No one ever got fired for<br>buying IBM" ( <a href="http://bit.ly/amN6sl" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/amN6sl</a> )<br><br>
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