Warsaw (Puls Biznesu) – Schools will have computer classrooms with macintosh hardware. Why did such a simple tender last five months?
The Ministry of Education chose the offer of the consortium comprised of Computerland Serwis and SAD to deliver Macintosh computers to schools all over Poland. The offer is worth PLN 37.8m (EUR 9.8m). The transaction will be in majority financed from EU funds. The tender was announced in August 2006, offers were submitted in September. The computers were supposed to be delivered till the end of last year.
Macintosh computers are produced by only one company – Apple. SAD is Apple’s sole distributor in Poland. This is the first tender concluded by the Ministry of Education in the last six months. The Ministry is conducting two other tenders: to buy computers for blind children and to equip computer classrooms worth jointly PLN 300m.
(PLN 1 = EUR 0.254)