AIM not bidding for PAP town councils' tender
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SINGAPORE: Action Information Management (AIM), which runs the People's Action Party (PAP) town councils' computer systems, will no longer operate the systems when its contract expires on April 30. It said on Wednesday that it will not participate in the latest tender exercise.
The arrangement between AIM, a company fully owned by the PAP, and the PAP town councils had caused controversy even though both parties had explained that the process by which the open tender was awarded to AIM was above board.
AIM Chairman S Chandra Das said: "Given that AIM had helped prepare the tender documents, it decided not to participate in the tender."
When contacted, Dr Teo Ho Pin, who is the Coordinating Chairman of the PAP town councils, confirmed the news: "AIM should not bid for this tender as they are involved in the tender specification preparation."
Dr Teo declined to reveal how many parties had collected the tender documents "as tendering is in progress".
In media reports last week, Mr Das declined to say whether AIM had - or would - bid for the tender, which was put up by the PAP town councils on February 4 and will close on Monday. Dr Teo had also said the latest tender was for developing a new town council management system. The previous tender - which was won by AIM in 2010 - was to sell and lease back computer software to the PAP town councils.
The saga began on December 14 after Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) Chairman Sylvia Lim explained the town council's less-than-stellar performance in a management report.
Ms Lim, part of the Workers' Party team which took over management of the town council after the General Election in 2011, blamed the AHTC's poor performance on the need to develop new IT systems within two months of the PAP-owned AIM terminating its contract last August.
Her explanation was followed by a series of statements by the AHTC and AIM. Among other things, questions were raised about the termination of the contract and the fact that AIM won a tender to manage the computer systems used by the town councils.
Last month, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that the Ministry of National Development will review the transaction. Among other things, the review will re-examine the fundamental nature of town councils, after much public debate about whether the town councils are public institutions or political organisations.-- TODAY
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No latest news on this saga?
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AIM not tender but can setup MIA another $2 company to tender for this
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Originally posted by charlize:
No latest news on this saga?
Already say before, Singaporean will forget about this after a while -
wonder if they can accept my $2 company?
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Originally posted by Lazybumy:
AIM not tender but can setup MIA another $2 company to tender for this
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Originally posted by lce:
wonder if they can accept my $2 company?
Who are you?
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Really no more news.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Who are you?
i m older than republic of singapore -
Originally posted by lce:
i m older than republic of singaporeYou are damn weird.
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if they r above board why no bid again since they have done no wrong
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may be now they don't use name AIM, change name or create new company........... to bid
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govt company is govt company la ............
like some people especially those in town council always like to brainwash people that EMS is not govt company. go see HDB website la, EMS is under HDB.
they all think all singaporeans are daft like those who vote for MIW to give them mandate to brainwash us with lies.
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Originally posted by SJS6638:
govt company is govt company la ............
like some people especially those in town council always like to brainwash people that EMS is not govt company. go see HDB website la, EMS is under HDB.
they all think all singaporeans are daft like those who vote for MIW to give them mandate to brainwash us with lies.
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No news is good news.
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Originally posted by lce:
i m older than republic of singaporeI dunch belieb you.
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and AIM contracts with the TC expire on the 30 April
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Japanese company wins tender for PAP town council IT contract
NEC Asia Pacific has won the tender to develop a new computer system for the 14 town councils run by the People's Action Party, taking over the role that used to be performed by the controversial PAP-owned company, Action Information Management. (AIM)
The Japanese company clinched the seven-year contract for $16.8 million, said Dr Teo Ho Pin, the coordinating chairman for PAP town councils.
NEC was among three companies who submitted bids. The other two companies were HCL Singapore and NCS, a wholly owned subsidiary of the SingTel Group. AIM, which had help draft the terms of the tender, did not bid.
A statement from Dr Teo said NEC was picked based on the recommendation of Deloitte and Touche Enterprise Risk Services, which evaluated the bids.
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eh...? Wait... Why did they get a 3rd party to evaluate the bids?
Getting a 3rd party means they will have to pay for their service, meaning more money wasted...
All this hoohar does not erase the fact that those pappy jokers running AIM already earn enuff free money...
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Policy-makers now shit in their pants, small things also scare liao. MP Dr Teo is praying very hard that the AIMs thing will not bite him in his backside so use 3rd party evaluation is really to cover their own backside!