Re: ISO 8601 & ebXML projects in Australia

["Peter HENRY" <peter.henry@oic.org>]

Hi Bruce - sorry for the delay in responding but we have been conducting 
research for an ITOL funding submission on how to enable SMEs to
become more involved in Government e-Tenders

A	XML PROJECT NAME
OTMG Tender Information Management Service [TIMS]

B	URL
http://www.oic.org/guest.htm

Tenders are a first stage of the e-business process.
Subsequent stages include 
1	Business Partner Alliance processes
2	Contract Management and
3	Contract Performance

C	XML SCHEMA
http://www.smeems.net/cpr/gk/Mod/TFS/

This was submitted to eb-XML Australia in Jun 2002 as a 
Tender Schema

This schema is being reviewed as the research into dates
as a key part of the tender process is redefined. 

D	KEY ISSUES OF TIMS SCHEMA

1	Provides Business and Personal field identifiers
	EDIFACT is deficient in this area particularly with company
	address details

2	Identifies the importance of dates in tenders with separate fields
	for all time and date issues:
	eg	Briefing date
		Tender question dates
		Tender response dates
		Schedule for awarding contracts

3	Includes maps for briefing location, tender box location etc	
	
D	PURPOSE

a	To enable Small & Medium size Enterprises to actively participate 
	in consortia to respond to Government tenders

b	To provide business intelligence reports to enable businesses to
	monitor new business opportunities
	TIMS provides this through a series of historical reports
	1	Analysis by 9 Industry groups
		http://www.oic.org/guest4a.htm
	2	Analysis by 11 Application groups
		http://www.oic.org/guest4b.htm
	3	Access to History of all tenders published
		http://www.oic.org/3c4.htm - this is not the live site

c	To provide notice of when 2 and 3 year tender contracts are due
	for renewal

d	Speed up the process for SMEs to review tenders.  This is carried 
	out by converting many doc. and .rft tender documents to html version

e	Provide all tender static information eg web address, contact 
	address details, contact e-communications, link to policy papers etc
	for each tender as part of a standard template
	eg http://www.oic.org/cpt/A/EEaNAUAJ.htm

f	Separate standard tender information such as condition of contract,
	conditions of tender and response standard information such as 		
	Respondent's Business Status and Insurance from the Scope of 		
	Requirements of the tender

	An example is the research that has been carried out with Northern 
	Territory tenders
	http://www.oic.org/cpt/A/CPTAE9R1.htm

g	A new version of TIMS will minimise the volume of information that 
	SMEs have to download to review tenders

E	OPTIONS AS A TENDER SERVICE

The notices of new tenders are bi-weekly e-mails to :

1	OIC Project Members
http://www.oic.org/3d1.htm

or

2	TIMS Subscribers
http://www.oic.org/3d1.htm


NEXT STEPS

Please advise if you require further information

regards

Peter HENRY
TIMS Co-ordinator
OTMG TENDER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES  

E:	peter.henry@oic.org
T:	(02) 9966-4518
W:	http://www.oic.org


On 5 Nov 02, at 3:23, s2brucemccabe wrote:

> Hello, I am currently doing some work for NOIE (National Office of 
> the Info Economy) and they have asked me if i can compile a rough 
> list of known ebXML projects in Australia today (including those in
> early stages).   
> 
> I would be most grateful if members of this group could reply with 
> very brief details of any current projects you know about (name, 
> purpose, url if any, etc)
> 
> I will return the completed list to anyone that responds, so if there 
> are any projects that you are happy for NOIE to be aware of but 
> prefer to otherwise keep confidential please mark them as such.
> 
> Thanks & regards,
> Bruce
> 
> Bruce McCabe
> S2 Intelligence Pty Ltd
> 
>