<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 21 Jul 2010, at 21:28, Saber Razmjooei wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p><font size="2">I have made a request last month to see all the tenders and procurement<br>
documents for GIS contracts Environment Agency (a major costumer of GIS<br>
software/solutions) has had recently. Finally, after long exciting<br>
waiting time I received a document (a Microsoft Word Document !!!!! not<br>
even a pdf) and here is the summary:<br>
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- A contract from 2003 - 2007 :via an OJEU (Official Journal of the<br>
European Union) Procurement exercise, a 5 year contract with ESRI<br>
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- from 2007, it is under GISS framework<br>
(<a href="http://www.buyingsolutions.gov.uk/categories/ICT/Software/GISS/">http://www.buyingsolutions.gov.uk/categories/ICT/Software/GISS/</a>)<br>
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I have yet to receive the detail of the tenders e.g. the statement of<br>
requirements and invitation letters (the companies invited during bid<br>
process).<br></font></p></div></blockquote><div>Be sure to configure a standing query/crontab in TED [1,2] for those. </div><div><br></div><div>You'd be surprized how often ITTs like this go out EU scale - and how easy it is to think outside the box (keep in mind that a proper open standard opengis proposal has an automatic leg up over anything proprietary) as the authors often want to encourage that. And it is pretty common for such to cause a situation where the original ITT is rescinded and replaced by something split in two - as to give room for some modest innovation.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p><font size="2">By just looking at the least of companies under the framework, some of<br>
the solutions (i.e. licenses) look a bit pricey!<br></font></p></div></blockquote>Aye - from past experience - it is not uncommon for very few bids to be made - and hence vendors who know this will go in with high prices.</div><div><br></div>Dw.<div><br><div>1 <a href="http://publications.europa.eu/official/index_en.htm">http://publications.europa.eu/official/index_en.htm</a></div><div>2 <a href="http://ted.europa.eu/TED/misc/chooseLanguage.do">http://ted.europa.eu/TED/misc/chooseLanguage.do</a></div></div></body></html>