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Regards, *Goa IT Professionals – GITP *| www.goaitpro.org | [email protected] *Important links: About GITP <http://www.goaitpro.org/gitp> | GITP on Social Network <http://www.goaitpro.org/follow-us/> | GITP Core Team <http://www.goaitpro.org/our-team> | *Goa Skills Registry - GSR <http://skills.goaitpro.org/> | Project GEIT <https://www.facebook.com/GoansEmpoweredWithIT/> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Goa IT Professionals - GITP <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 3:53 PM Subject: Goa govt's misplaced preference for vendors of medical equipment To: Dr. Vijay Borges <[email protected]>, Goa Director DoIT < [email protected]>, IT Minister <[email protected]>, IT Secretary < [email protected]>, Managing Director - Infotech Corp of Goa < [email protected]>, md-itg.goa <[email protected]>, Shri Manohar Parrikar < [email protected]>, cm goa <[email protected]>, Vishwajit Rane < [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Chief Secretary - Goa < [email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>, Goa Chamber < [email protected]>, Jervis Pereira <[email protected]>, Nitin Kunkolienker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Atrey Sawant <[email protected]>, Atul Pai Kane <[email protected]>, Atul Pai Kane <[email protected]>, CEO IPB <[email protected]>, Chief Secretary - Goa <[email protected]>, Ernest Dias <[email protected]>, girish_bharne <[email protected]>, IPB <[email protected]>, IT Minister <[email protected]>, Kirit Maganlal <[email protected]>, Martin Ghosh <[email protected]>, Nana Bandekar <[email protected]>, Nitin Kunkolienker <[email protected]>, Rajkumar Kamat < [email protected]>, Shekhar Sardesai <[email protected]>, Shri Manohar Parrikar <[email protected]>, Srinet Kothwale < [email protected]>, Sudhir Mahajan IAS <[email protected]>, Tulasida Pai <[email protected]>, Yatin Kakodkar <[email protected]>, < [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, cm goa <[email protected]>, Sidharth Kuncalienker <[email protected]>, Subhash Phaldessai < [email protected]>, Laxmikant Parsekar < [email protected]>, Sidharth Kuncalienker <[email protected]>, Vijai Sardesai <[email protected]>, Durgadas Kamat < [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Suresh Prabhu < [email protected]>, Suresh Prabhu <[email protected]>, < [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, gitp_core < [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Ravi Shankar Prasad <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Narendra Sawaikar < [email protected]>, Shripad Naik <[email protected]>, < [email protected]>, <[email protected]> To: Officials of Goa Govt CC: MLAs, Central Govt , NGOs BCC: Local and National Press Goa IT Professionals (GITP) is deeply aggrieved about the sidelining of highly eligible Goan companies with proven track records while allocating Government contracts. The worrisome trend which was predominant in the Software and Web Development arena has now percolated into the ESDM sector. We strongly condemn the act of the *Health Department* of giving undue preference to certain companies, more specifically outsider companies when similar technologies are offered by equal or more competent Goan companies. The case in question here is of Kallows Engineering India, a Ponda-based ISO13485:2016 certified medical devices manufacturing Company having a US patent. As technology partner for the STEMI India program Kallows has deployed 750 tele-ECG machines across the country including Apollo Hospitals, Narayana Hrudayalaya, and government hospitals in Telangana. This competent Goan company with proven track record was sidelined while awarding contract for the medical devices under the STEMI(segment elevation myocardial infraction ) project which was recently launched by the Goa Medical College(GMC) and Hospital *on the basis of some mundane paper work*. The final contract was awarded to a Bangalore based company which did not even submit the bid for the STEMI equipment tender floated by the government. Besides several advantages, the difference in quality is such that while the Kallows product captures data from 12 channels simultaneously while the product chosen by the govt captures 4 channels at a time. Also, the price of Kallows' product is lower than the government's choice. Incidentally, Kallows Engineering India was awarded the Chief Minister’s Award for Best Technology Startup for its work in advanced mobile health care. Moreover, this highly reputed company has also been giving gainful *employment to significant number of Goan youth* for the past several years. . Local companies offer an important advantage as they are locally accessible to the state government and do not vanish like most of the companies from outside the state. Appeals are made by MLAs to the Goan youth to be self-employed. The government has been issuing registration certificates to startups under the IT and Startup Policies. What will genuinely matter to the local startup ecosystem is inclusion in government projects and a positive boost in terms of funding and handholding and not mere certificates and promises. We urge the Goa government, especially the *Department of IT,* to take cognizance of this discrimination and initiate corrective actions at the earliest. This will not only help restore faith of the Goan business community in the transparent working of the government but also build confidence amongst competent Goan entrepreneurs that no injustice will be meted out to them at any point in time. Regards, *Goa IT Professionals – GITP *| www.goaitpro.org | [email protected] *Important links: About GITP <http://www.goaitpro.org/gitp> | GITP on Social Network <http://www.goaitpro.org/follow-us/> | GITP Core Team <http://www.goaitpro.org/our-team> | *Goa Skills Registry - GSR <http://skills.goaitpro.org/> | Project GEIT <https://www.facebook.com/GoansEmpoweredWithIT/>
