Japan: US$900 bid scandal
Japan
Gyaku has translated some news and documents on a huge scandal of Japanese government in contracting out a new biometric immigration system (finger print identification system) to Accenture Japan Ltd. The bid for this contract was awarded at a price of only 100,000 yen (maintenance services: 90,000 yen, product development expenses: 10,000 yen). The bid covers at most 1% of the actual expenses expected to be incurred in the project. So how could that happen? Very detailed report at gyaku.
It was mainly because of some disagreement between the two and also because Lijun knew...