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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What I want to know is: who is the person from ESRI who provided that spec? Who is that person who is deliberately selling something
that he/she KNOWS the client does not need. That is totally unethical!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I want that person’s details and if he/she is registered with SAGC – I am reporting him/her.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It is just as unethical as to tell a builder he needs 10 000 bags of cement, when you know he only needs 100.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Africa [mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gavin Fleming<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 October 2018 22:20<br>
<b>To:</b> Africa local chapter discussions <africa@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> records@gsibande.gov.za<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo Africa] ESRI in Government and tender requirements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Xolisile <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Herewith the ’tender notice’. I do wonder why they’re removed it from their website. They are cc’d so perhaps they can respond. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gavin, it seems the link has been disabled and that does not necessarily mean it is cancelled. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would you kindly load the specification for us to view and see how we can participate in taking the matter forwards.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Xolisile GCOBO<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Africa Geospatial Perspective DSS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 07:05, Gavin Fleming <<a href="mailto:gavinjfleming@gmail.com">gavinjfleming@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To continue this thread, here is another tender that should be cancelled forthwith:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gert Sibande District Municipality TENDER NO GSDM: 72/2018 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS): SOFTWARE LICENSING AND SUPPORT FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY SIX (36) MONTHS [1]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://gs.arimur.co.za/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=5431&category_id=58&Itemid=287" target="_blank">https://gs.arimur.co.za/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=5431&category_id=58&Itemid=287</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Flaws include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- This purports to be a tender but is no more than a regurgitated ESRI quotation without prices.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Govt entities are not allowed to request specific software but have to request a solution and preferably go for an open source offering<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- There is no functional requirement (so they’re just buying it, it doesn’t have to do anything): “This tender will not be subjected to functionality evaluation”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Their ‘bill of quantities’ for ESRI software is complete overkill. They don’t have the staff to expertise to use even half of those licences.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- how is this competitive when there’s only one company that can respond?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- “Tenderers must have the necessary skills, experience and capacity to perform the required work”. What work is there in selling licences?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Their previous ESRI ELA has actually ended and this is a thinly veiled attempt at renewing it, which is not allowed, yet they state “The Gert Sibande District Municipality (GSDM) is in a process of maintaining the existing Service Level
Agreement (SLA-ELA) with regard to licensing and maintenance of its GIS, which is established on the Arc Suite of products”. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Gert Sibande DM has already spent millions of Rands on ESRI software and now are being duped into spending more and becoming more locked into one vendor. I guess the free conference trips are an appealing sweetener. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- In the current state of the economy with austerity measures in place this smacks of wasteful if not reckless expenditure.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- It’s not published on the central Govt tender portal (<a href="http://www.etenders.gov.za/content/advertised-tenders" target="_blank">http://www.etenders.gov.za/content/advertised-tenders</a>) where all Govt tenders are supposed to be
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Since there are no services requested in the ’tender’ other than “support”, they should be saving themselves the trouble and expense of procuring software and instead install all open source themselves and rather put out a tender just
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please share other examples (there must be hundreds) and let’s get a grassroots movement going to change the status quo. We need a level playing field and Govt must speed up implementation of the 2007 open source policy. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Every time you see a tender like this, push back to get it withdrawn and re-issued under fair and legal terms.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone want to help tackle this one or are we going to just let this abuse of public funds continue?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 03 Aug 2018, at 21:29, Kashmira <<a href="mailto:kashmirab@gmail.com" target="_blank">kashmirab@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However we should also get assurance from SITA to not prescribe ESRI but rather allow the choices of software to be more transparent that also goes for the prescribed SAP choice.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kashmira <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, 03 Aug 2018, 4:48 PM Sindile Bidla, <<a href="mailto:sindile.bidla@geoilocate.co.za" target="_blank">sindile.bidla@geoilocate.co.za</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Department of Home Affairs has canceled the geographical accessibility study tender. Hopefully the new tender will not unfairly disadvantage other players in the sector.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">---- On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:08:39 +0200 <b>Sindile Bidla <<a href="mailto:sindile.bidla@geoilocate.co.za" target="_blank">sindile.bidla@geoilocate.co.za</a>></b> wrote ----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Those who are concerned by this issue could perhaps raise it with the CFO (I have sent him an email and spoke to him on the phone).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">This creates a defacto monopoly with regards to GIS services in Government and does not encourage the emergence of other players.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">To me, this is exactly the problem bodies like GISSA and SAGI need tackle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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is where things will start to happen for us (GISc types).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Perhaps start by looking hard at the import/export options on ESRI products, and finding a way in through those methodologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Once the users see that data flows easily in and out of Arc, the next step can be taken.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hope this thought helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Zoltan Szecsei GPrGISc 0031<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Geograph (Pty) Ltd.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>GIS and Photogrammetric Services<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hi Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I have just read all the comments and replies with regards to the requirement that one uses ESRI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Something we have come across and what is a concern for us as well is that in most of the tenders, and will more than likely soon be come all tenders, stipulates that one needs to provide the municipality
/ government department with an ARC Map Package, no other software is compatible with this except for ARC, so unless the TORs states that one can provide shapefiles compatible with ESRI/ARC you will need to have ARC so that you can comply with the TOR requesting
a Map Package.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Many of the Government Departments we work with have indicated that the ARC Map Package is the ARC GIS Format they are referring to when asking for data, some have amended the TORs to indicate
that the data needs to be provided in ARC Map Package format.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Angie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> Africa
<a href="mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank"><africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org></a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gavin Fleming<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 26 July 2018 10:10<br>
<b>To:</b> Africa local chapter discussions <a href="mailto:africa@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">
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<b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo Africa] ESRI in Government and tender requirements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I attended the briefing session for the Department of Home Affairs geographical accessibility study (Thanks Zoltan for the heads-up).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The ToR states that the service provider has to have ArcGIS. I asked for this requirement to be removed since it does not matter what software the service provider uses as long as they deliver
the result. The response from DHA was that Govt has a ’transversal ESRI licence’ and that all Govt departments have to use ESRI! Never mind that this is completely contrary to the FOSS policy agreed to by Cabinet in 2007 and against SITA procurement policy,
if it even is true that Govt is ‘has to’ use ESRI that does NOT mean service providers have to. Nevertheless I got a vocal support from other attendees as this requirement is ridiculous and exclusionary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">DHA went further to say they want service providers to use ArcGIS so they don’t end up with issues using the data that service providers deliver. They are confusing software with data and don’t
seem to be aware (or are so brainwashed) that most formats produced by most GIS software these days are completely interoperable. Furthermore they are unaware of and indeed flouting the MIOS (SA Govt Minimum Interoperability Standards).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Even worse and quite nonsensical is this formal response from DHA to all attendees of the briefing session:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Relating to SITA circular 1 of 2017/18 and National Treasury SCM circular 3 of 2017/8, it is a requirement that all Government departments make use of ESRI South Africa for software
and therefore the format required will be in Arc GIS format.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Firstly there is no such thing as ‘Arc GIS format’. Secondly this is blatantly incorrect (and illegal if it is true). Lastly, can anyone enlighten the list as to the contents of the two circulars
mentioned and whether they even support this argument?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Your thoughts? Anyone willing to take action?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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