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Lao fakaangaanga - Procurement Bill
Government has announced, and published through their website http://www.tonga-now.to the following:
Lao fakaangaanga - Procurement Bill
Policy Decision for the Draft Public Procurement Bill
Purpose: The purpose of this Bill: - legislation and regulation governing the Government Procurement processA BILL FOR AN ACT TO PROVIDE A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN TONGA AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER RELATED MATTERS
Interestingly enough, this has a partial IT solution (or at least the mechanisms of IT assist in providing efficient solutions.) Obviously. Which brings me to some other IT news I'd read through the ether.
Island Tech - Nice Scam
There's a new company in town (or at least I hadn't really noticed them until they started putting out this advertising about some real cheap pricing.)
A friend of mine, mostly living in New Zealand, asked me about this company a couple of weeks ago and I said I thought they were running some sort of scam. And here's why.
Note that their advertising is really unbeatable pricing, how many places can you go to get a NEW Computer for $989.00 ? Even DELL and WalMart can't beat what these guys are saying their going to provide with their new PC (let's just say for example that the TOP$989.00 is going to be something like USD$500.00)
A few things that they don't mention or clarify in this scam advertising.
* new PCs on the right column, doesn't really apply to the advertised PC on the left column. This deal isn't for a new PC, it's for a REFURBISHED PC.
* Pentium III - 800Mhz, 256MB Ram, 10GB HDD, CD-ROM is what you're going to get at this great price. This may have been a premium machine 7 or 8 years ago (circa 1999/2000) but it is not available brand-new anywhere in the world today.
* Preloaded Software: Win XP SP2, Office 2003 is probably illegally installed pirated software. This means that you will be like most everyone else in town, but it shouldn't really be a feature if it's illegal?.
* The above preloaded software is probably going to run like a dogggg. Last time I had a Pentium III 800Mhz, I was using better specs with 512MB Ram, 20GB HDD and I thought the performance on that machine was horrible using XP.
* FREE 512MB Flash Drive value TOP$100. I don't know where they're buying their flash drives, because the 2GB I'm using (i.e. 4 times the capacity they're promoting) only cost me AUD$69.00 12 months ago.
Just another reminder that (a) we need some consumer protection in Tonga, and (b) let the buyer beware.
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