The director-general added that this step will coincide with the constant developments witnessed by the city of Dubai and will be supporting the government’s plan for the e-government. He also praised the big role played by the portal Tejari.com in setting up a support base for e-market for exchanging online trade between commercial establishments, companies and organisations. “We now get more opportunities for accessing new markets, all this with full control over provision and supply. Dubai Municipality supports Tejari.com in line with its keenness for developing its online commercial transactions,” Mr Sultan said.
The civic body, Mr Sultan said, has tried to educate and encourage suppliers to join Tejari.com for an effective impact in the purchasing procedures and take online bids. In order to achieve this the Purchasing Section has conducted 29 educational and orientation seminars at the civic body’s Staff Club explaining the peculiarities of Tejari’s system. In these seminars conducted in co-ordination with the B2B portal, 1,800 suppliers, who are in the list of registered suppliers of the municipality’s Purchasing Section, participated,” Mr Sultan said.
For a third consecutive year, Dubai Municipality won the Tejari award for the most successful department in conducting campaigns to encourage them to join Tejari system. The award was presented by Shaikha Lubna Al Qassimi, CEO, Tejari.com yesterday at the Tejari stall at the Gitex 2004 at the World Trade Centre. The award was received by Essa Al Maidour, Director of Contracts and Purchasing Department in the presence of Tareq Al Khaja, Head of Purchasing Section and Ismail Kazim, Head of Purchasing Unit.
Quelle: Khaleej Times, 09.10.2004
