+1, I also thought the ICT Authority Board was launched with pomp 3weeks ago and by now they should not be entertaining such tragedy. As one of our former President used to say , if you must steal, at least steal with some decorum/intelligence. Otherwise you end up embarrassing not just the government but the whole Kenyan ICT community. @Adam, provisioning in government speak is the whole chain -design,deploy and maintain. And the 1,000/= is the cost of buying the Tender document NOT provisioning. In other words, I would pay the 1,000/=, get the document and quote 10,000,000/= to provide the acrobat reader, which I will ofcourse download for free. I will be the lowest bidder since my "competitors" are just my sister companies...quoting 10/- higher...you get the drift? Anyway, the sample online document is not dated nor signed. So lets just hope it was some digital joke doing rounds on the Net. But then again, this is Kenya and anything is possible. walu. -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 2/17/14, Ngigi Waithaka <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya Bureau of Statistics Advertises For Tenders For Free Adobe Reader... To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 3:04 PM The sad question is, where is KICTAuthority in all this? The whole point of centralizing ICT is to ensure such procurement decisions do not pass, and proper guideline or advice given. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:01 PM, James Mbugua <[email protected]> wrote: Adam, The Sh1000 is for you to get the "Bid" documents not for installing Adobe. James On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Adam Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: This is for provisioning, not the license. It's not totally unreasonable to charge 1k to install a piece of software if it's done professionally and at scale. One would hope that provisioning is happening via an image and people aren't installing software individually on computers one at a time. --Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io Musings: twitter.com/varudMore Musings: varud.com About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Josy Ngatia <[email protected]> wrote: I Second you on this....! It's very discouraging. Unless there was typo of the service description from Adobe professional to Adobe reader..! Then the service is request is wanting On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Michael Bullut <[email protected]> wrote: Greetings Listers, I don’t know how corruption smells but this looks like it! Read the article here. Warm regards, Michael Bullut. --- Cell: +254 723 393 114. Skype Name: Michael Bullut. 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