Thursday, February 10, 2011

New tender for France.fr

Up to 2 million Euros for France. en: the Government Information Service (GIS), which depends Matignon, has launched a new tender to develop the site, with a budget estimated at 2 million. Launched with great fanfare on July 14 last, the "Gate of France on the Internet" was soon dropped down, and remained unavailable for several months.

The GIS was then changed host. But all was not settled: the new tender, published on February 1, provides for "maintenance and development" of the site, in addition to developing new features, including the creation of maps and animated graphics. Companies may also offer their hosting solution.

This new tender provides for a budget estimate of eighteen months of contract of 2 million euros excluding tax. " A significant amount, given the overall budget of the site. Last August, Thierry Saussez, director of the GIS information challenged Duck chained that the design of the site would have cost 3 million euros in total over 1 million in management costs.

"When you launch a tender, you expect a maximum amount of expenses to be able to cope", a sum that "of course you are not obliged to hire," he explained then, noting that 3 million raised by the weekly corresponded to "a maximum amount of expenses as possible." According to the GIS, only 1 million had been hired to design and launch of the site.

But Dr. Saussez, 140 000 were incurred for the implementation "of entertainment and interactive maps further. Contents that are just part of the new tender.

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