Computer Aided Call for Tenders: A Tool for Software Bidding

Abstract

Under a broad comprehension of Software Engineering, it is preferred the term software life cycle instead of just software production. The reason is that cycle starts at software conception and stops when the software is relegated. Given contemporary companies' market strategies of focusing on their competitive advantages, most of them have externalized their software production to outsourced services. Therefore, the call for software tenders has become a common step in the software life cycle. In this paper, we present a tool which aids non-experts to specify call for software tenders. The motivation was Chile situation of most of rural and semi-urban city halls which do not have engineering teams to build call for software tenders. We describe the problem in terms of lack of competitiveness and empty biddings generated by low quality calls for tenders. As a second step, we show the technical considerations to develop the proposed tool and its features. We include an initial tool perception from a first group of users.

Study on the Management Mechanism of Bidding Procurement in Higher Vocational College

“…On the one hand, by using information technology for bidding procurement, we can set the evaluation expert access standards for each project according to the professional title, current industry, working time and major of the evaluation expert, and select the school procurement evaluation expert database with strong professional quality, long working time and professional counterpart. On the other hand, higher vocational colleges should establish their own information resource database for bidding procurement according to the summary and arrangement of bidding procurement projects in recent years, the list of different industries and the performance of the bid winner after the completion of project procurement, because the procurement categories are close to convergence and change little every year (Hochstetter & Cares, 2014).…”