The NSW Government has given strong indications that it expects technology behind its new online procurement system, announced today, to provide standards for commercial e-commerce operators.
"I wouldn't wish to say that we will come out and tell the industry what to do, what I will say is that this is where government is going," said David Lewis, group general manager of e-business solutions at the NSW Department of Public Works and Services (DPWS).
The system, to be launched in 90 days and touted as the largest in Australia, is the central plank of the Government's procurement reform package and is the result of new standards that have been developed by Australian government agencies in recent years, said Lewis.
"One of the things I don't want to have happen is the digital version of the railway guages," said Lewis, explaining the direction of recent e-marketplace discussions between State and Federal governments and the Australian Procurement Construction Council.
The indications coming from the government have been supported by an executive at global system integrator Logica, which won the AU$25 million dollar tender contract to build and manage the system last week.
Logica executive director, Geoff Cosgriff, said the technology would give suppliers the ability to build online catalogues "not just to trade with government but to trade with other agencies".
The NSW government is launching its service amidst great uncertainty in the e-commerce industry following a raft of e-market failures, both locally and in the United States.
Lewis acknowledged that the Government's system would be under heavy scrutiny but said the government was simply "dot-com-ing what [it's] been doing for some time".
According to Lewis, many commercial players have failed in the online procurement stakes because develop their strategies before completely understanding the vagaries of the market.
"You need to have a range of buyers -- which we already have; you need to have a range of suppliers --which we already have," he said.
Logica has enlisted German-based IT company Intershop to design the NSW Government marketplace.
Intershop has already had some success running government procurement systems, contracting to the NSW DPWS's German equivalent, the Ministry of the Interior.
The system is being rolled with expectations that it will carry an estimated 11 million transactions worth $AU4 billion dollars within three years.
HONOURABLE SIR,
WE HAVE A CLAIM OF USD 200,000.00 ON THE BELOW MENTIONED COMPANY
WHO HAVE EXPORTED TO US(WHOLE GREEN PEAS WITH INSECTS INSIDE THEM AND INSECT EATON PEAS)AND AQIS ISSUED CERTIFICATED THAT GOODS ARE GOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
TLC Exports Pty Ltd
PO Box 1145
Horsham, Vic 3400
Phone: 61 3 5382 1677
Fax: 61 3 5382 0053
email: export@thelentilcompany.com.au
WHO EXPORTED TO US (WHOLE GREEN PEAS WITH INSECTS INSIDE THEM AND ALSO INSECT EATON PEAS)
WE MADE INSPECTION BY SGS AND THE LAB AND WE HAVE PICTURES.
THE EXPORTER BLAMES THE (AQIS) INSPECTORS WHO INSPECTED THE CARGO AND ISSUED THAT THEY ARE FREE FROM INSECTS AND WWEVILS
AND ISSUED CERTIFICATES THAT THESE ARE GOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMTION.
THE EXPORTER IS NOT RESPONDING US AND THIS MATTER IS SINCE 2001 AND RECENTLY WE HAD A MESSAGE FROM THE EXPORTER THAT THE EXPORT MANAGER IS OUT AND THIS WAS ON 8 JULY 2002....WE ALSO HAVE A LETTER FROM THE LAWYER THAT THE EXPORTER IS RESPONSIBLE.
WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE AND AS I AM THE INTERMEDATOR FOR THE IMPORTERS I HAVE MANAGED TO PAY THE CLAIMS TO OUR GUYS ABD BOUGHT FROM THEM THE CLAIMS,AND HAVE ALSO INFORMED THE EXPORTER THAT WE CAN AMICABLY SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, THEY ARE ALL NOT REPLYING US AND EVERYTIME IN 2 MONTHS THEY MAKE AND EXCUSE,THAT THE EXPORTER IS AWAY OR ON HOLIDAY....THE SEC (ELISABETH WALTER) SEND THE MESSAGES.
I HAVE SENT MORE THEN 1000 MESSAGE AND ITS BEEN READ BY THE EXP MANAGER MR. PETER SEMMLER, BUT NOBODY REPLIES.
PLEASE HELP ME DEAR SIR,
THE AMOUNT IS USD 200,000.00 BUT WE CAN DISCUSS AND BRING IT TO 50% OR EVEN LESS.
THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE SIR, FOR YOUR KIND COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE AND A TELEPHONE FROME YOUR OFFICE TO THE EXPORTER WILL PAVE THE WAY FOR AN AMICABLE SOLUTION.
RIDA BANANI
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