MAIT hosts workshop to create awareness on Model RFPs

To identify the challenges in the areas of IT Procurement and spread larger awareness on Model Request for proposal (RFPs), which has been prepared by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) in 2011 to standardize the procurement process, Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has organized a sensitization workshop on model RFPs in association with Deity and Accenture as knowledge partner at Mumbai. The workshop acted as a common platform for both the industry body and states from western India to share their experience on the implementation of e-Governance projects.

Anwar Shirpurwala, Executive Director, MAIT, said, “We are honoured to offer a platform wherein industry and government gathered to understand and strengthen procurement mechanisms and also create larger awareness on Model RFPs. Different states have their own approaches towards RFPs and with such workshops we aim to facilitate inputs fromseveral state governments as well as the larger industry on how Model RFPs themselves can be further strengthened.”

State IT decision-makers from western India and industry captains participated at this event as it served as a platform to interact on ways of strengthening IT procurement processes and highlight the issues being faced by them in implementing e-Governance projects over the last few years. Representatives from the states like Maharashtra, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu and Madhya Pradesh, participated in the discussion and addressed the issues and challenges for e-Governance projects.