Hi, It is unfortunate that we are already coming up with excuses for why we cannot deliver on this but most unfortunate is that you of all people could thorugh such a large spanner into the works yet your product has received funding with little or not field testing. We all buy tenders and spend many hours completing our responses yet we do not get paid for such activities, what is so difficult with making a pitch? I thought we are in the information age where a young graduate only needs a computer and internet connection to make it big. Lets for once stop being typical Kenyans and think of Bill Gates walking into the IBM offices to sell MS-DOS. Regards PS. Another posting like this and I go off to freelance.com & partner with positive thinking developers, the world has become a village. Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Agosta Liko <agostal@gmail.com> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tue, 21 September, 2010 14:38:37 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Commodity Exchange System Robert. We usually don't get those contracts because the buying bodies prefer to get software that's tried / tested / proven .... and rightly so. The way I look at this - as a manager, if I was to choose between a local vendor who would have to develop from scratch and a foreign vendor whose solution is running lets say 30 clients .... I would pick the foreign vendor 99 out of 100 times. Its all about risk ... and as we all know "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" ( http://bit.ly/amN6sl )