Online Registration/ Termination of Employment within the private sector

The e-Gov project is publishing tender for the development of software for Online Registration/ Termination of Employment within the Prvate Sector.

The software should be used for employers to fulfil their obligations to register new or terminated employments. The new automated process should save time both for the employers and the state institutions concerned. The application will reflect the on-going process to reduce "red tape" by cutting the present very long list of information to be submitted in connection with the registration.

All interested bidders should take a note that the tender documents consist of the Invitation to Submit Bids and a System Description.

In adittion to this two documents, you can find other two forms requested to be submited as the company registration , company reference templates and draft contract. All documents are also posted buder the Documents section of this web site.

Time table of activities is following:

Date of issue: Thursday 28th June 2007

End of period for questions: Wednesday 25th July 2007 at 15:00 local time

End of tender period: Friday 10th August 2007 at 15:00 local time

List of companies submitting bidding documents:

1. Babylon Software Solution
2. EduSoft
3. Ein Sof
4. Fornet
5. Grnarov
6. Infinite Solutions
7. Neocom
8. Next Sense
9. Pexim
10. Seavis
11. Ultra

After reviewing and evaluating all 11 bids, e-Gov Project decided to sign the contract with NEOCOM.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

1. You are mentioning several institutions that will use the system. Also (on page 4), you are mentioning “The submitted information is stored in a central database and simultaneously distributed by the system to all institutions involved.” Would you expect that the data is distributed by, for example, sending e-mail, or by other data exchange technologies. If latter, could you please explain what kind of technologies for data exchange are available in these institutions?

A. By other data exchange technologies. It is expected that the bidder propose possible data exchange protocols over the Internet.

2. On page 5, chapter Access Rights, you are mentioning “No registration into the system is foreseen by the entity submitting information about new or terminated employment.” Could you please advise if the system is planned to cope with the possible abuse ? If positive, which mechanisms are foreseen in system design to avoid abuse.

A The bidder is encouraged to propose solutions how to secure the system from abuse

Important notifications for bidders:

Please read and carefully study the formal requirements before submitting the offer. Submissions that will not meet the formal requirements shall not be taken into consideration at the evaluation phase.

Only questions submitted on line to info (at) eGov dot org dot mk (replace words with relevant simbols) can be answered. No discussion with any staff member of the Team, or the Parnter insitution identified in the request for proposal document, is allowed in order to clarify any issues related to the tender.