E-Government: E-Tendering System

• Main Author: Sabtu, Asraf
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2006
• Subjects: ZA Information resources
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/6932/1/2006%20-%20E-Government%20E-Tendering%20System.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/6932/

Electronic government or e-government is a new concept for government to serve the citizen. Instead of using conventional technique, e-government could boost the government's capabilities in serving the citizen. E-government is an approach which using information and communication technology (ICT) in order to improve the efficiency in providing services and information to citizen. While E-Tendering Systemis an additional to enhancethe e-government services. For that, the objectiveof this project is to make a study regardinge-government and e-tendering. The study mainly on how the e-government helpingthe efficiency of public sectors in performing government services to people. Besides that, another study regarding the current tender system and apply the concept to the system that will be developed. The second objective is to develop a prototype of e-government portal with e-tendering system. Based on the study from the first objective, a prototype of an end product will be developed. Rapid Application Development (RAD) is the method which will be used in this project. It is used due to time constraint and it is suitable for short duration project. Besides that, RAD includes developing a prototype in its phasebeforehaving a complete system. A questionnaire has been distributed as the part of the study in order to gather more information from user regarding e-government. The result is positively towards e-government which verifiesthe efficiency of e-government portal to citizen while e-tendering system will improve its efficiency. Some suggestions are also being carried out for future enhancement.