A media statement [Link] carried 2 January 2013 on the PAP’s official website, says that PAP-run Town Councils (TCs) entered into an agreement with NCS to develop a computer system in August 2003:
In 2003, the TCs wanted to harmonise their computer systems. Hence, in 2003, all the TCs jointly called an open tender for a vendor to provide a computer system based on a common platform. NCS was chosen to provide this system. The term of the NCS contract (“NCS contract”) was from 1 August 2003 to 31 October 2010. There was an option to further extend the contract for one year, until 31 October 2011.So the contract was negotiated between NCS and TCs in 2003, some time before August. This falls into the timeframe when Mr Tan was Deputy Director of Enterprise Software group in NCS (Oct 2001 – Mar 2004). Since Mr Tan listed the deal with TCs as one of his key achievements in NCS, we assume that the computer system developed by NCS for the 14 PAP TCs cost $30 million (including hardware, vendor software and the developed software), as stated by Mr Tan in his achievements.
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