Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

breakingcups|9 years ago

Interesting! This kind of forking and hopefully inter-government OSS co-operation is exactly what I've been hoping to see.

ivank|9 years ago

FYI: "Bidders must have a bank account in Singapore to receive payment for work done."

pmontra|9 years ago

I looked for that on the site and didn't find it. Would you mind linking the page with this statement? Thanks.

softwarelimits|9 years ago

And btw it would be very interesting if anybody from the US would like to write a little bit about the role of 18F - I am not sure that I understand things right, but it seems to be a very interesting concept of governmental IT services.

How is this agency perceived? How does it work out in practice? How are things coordinated? Anything would be appreciated!

Thanks!

andrefrancisco|9 years ago

Hello! Happy to answer any questions you have about 18F. The basics: we're an office of federal employees inside the General Services Administration that helps other federal agencies improve how they build, buy, and share technology. Other agencies have to pay us for our work, so we operate in a similar way to a private business. You can see a summary of the types of things we ship (with examples) here https://18f.gsa.gov/what-we-deliver/. More info about the micro-purchase platform here https://18f.gsa.gov/tags/micro-purchase-platforms/

*I'm an 18F employee.

yen223|9 years ago

Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.

doppp|9 years ago

It's pretty common. We have G-Cloud Cloudstore [1] and GeBIZ [2] among other things.

[1] https://www.ida.gov.sg/programmes-partnership/sectors/G-Clou... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeBIZ

b2m9|9 years ago

Probably the reason why they label it as "GovBuy" instead ;)

softwarelimits|9 years ago

Does anybody have a list of similar gov services around the world?

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