A lot has been said about SnooCODE’s failure to land a government contract for a digital property addressing system.
The debate has raged on various platforms.
Having interviewed snooCODE on a number of occasions, I have questioned the process myself. I have engaged in Facebook and WhatsApp debates.
Here are some preliminary thoughts as we continue to chase the truth and empower Ghana’s technology entrepreneurs for the future.
FACTS
– SnooCODE submitted a bid that was in excess of 3 pages. The executive Summary alone was more than three pages.
– SnooCODE was offering its platform to Ghana for FREE
– Till date, SnooCODE has not been officially communicated to as to why they were kicked out.
– I have not been employed, paid, coerced, hypnotized or influenced in any way by SnooCODE.
I do this for the tech community in Ghana who I believe have something incredible to offer this country.
– I fully support a national digital property addressing system which is done right and with the right people.
THE THEORIES
The word on the street is that Snoocode:
– Submitted a three paged ‘wrong’, ‘faulty’ and ‘incomplete’ document
– Was charging above and beyond what government was willing to pay for
THE QUESTIONS
Consider the following, if you care to think critically about how your nation is treating its technology entrepreneurs:
– How does an ordinary citizen or employee of Vokakom have access to the details of a closed bid? Are they members of the panel that reviewed the bids? If they are, is that not a far more serious case to worry about; that a member of the panel will use social media and online news portals to distribute confidential details of a bidding process?
– If the person or persons speaking ‘on authority’ about the details in SnooCODE’s bid is not on the review panel, then who is feeding them the information on the content of a SEALED bid?
– Where did the rest of the documents in SnooCODE’s bid disappear to? More than two copies of the bid were submitted; did all three copies have only three pages? Who stole the rest of the pages?