MUSCAT : This project by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Investment Promotion aims to develop and manage the government’s unified e-services platform – Oman Business Platform – under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) framework.

According to the Ministry of Finance, the pre-qualification stage saw a strong response from the market, with 70 companies initially submitting an Expression of Interest. Out of these, 30 companies proceeded to submit a Qualification Request, leading to the final selection of 12 highly qualified bidders.

The list of companies in the competitive process includes:
• Al Madina
• Bahwan Cybertex – (Consortium)
• Bahwan Engineering
• Business Gateway
• Nelta – (Consortium)
• Nortal – (Consortium)
• PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Quilix
• Solutions By STC (Saudi Telecom Company)
• SSL (Software Systems)
• TCS (Tata Consultancy)
• World Cloudturksat – (Consortium)

Following the pre-qualification, the project’s implementation stages will now proceed with the “Request for Proposal” phase, leading towards the final “Contracting” stage.

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