Today, December 20, 2007, the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology (ANRCTI) launched the seventh public tender for the installation of telecentres in 172 rural localities in 31 counties of Romania. Any person that is both a provider of public electronic communications networks and a provider of publicly available electronic communications services may participate in the tender.
“The tender launched today raises the total number of villages where telecentres are to be installed to 633. We thus overfulfilled the objective we have proposed, namely connect to telephony and Internet 600 isolated communities. So far, with the help of communications providers and local authorities, we managed to connect to the world more than 230,000 inhabitants from 300 villages, and their number will double when all telecentres are to be installed”, declared Dan Georgescu, the President of ANRCTI.
The 172 villages were selected from the localities identified as having low access to telephone services. Furthermore, the mayoralties of these localities expressed their availability to participate in the national programme for the installation of telecentres initiated by ANRCTI.
The list of the localities envisaged by today’s tender for the installation of telecentres is available here, on the ANRCTI website.
The telecentre is a public space equipped with at least two telephones, two computers, a fax and a UPS device. Thus, the inhabitants will be able to make and receive local, national and international calls, including towards the mobile telephone networks. Furthermore, they will be able to call the emergency number – 112 – and have access to Internet and fax.
So far, 300 telecentres have been installed within the national programme for the installation of telecentres, the 300th telecentre being launched yesterday at Sighetul Silvaniei, in Salaj county. Since the national programme for the installation of telecentres has started, ANRCTI has organized six tenders for the installation of telecentres in 461 localities.
The documents required for drawing up and submitting the offer in order to participate in the tender for the installation of telecentres may be purchased free of charge by submitting a request by e-mail to the following address bogdan.dospinescu@anrcti.ro starting December 21, 2007 until March 4, 2008. The requests for clarifications will be sent by March 5, 2008, whereas the deadline for submitting the offers is March 18, 2008, 16:00 hours. The offers will be opened on March 19, 2008, 10:00 hours, and the winner will be established by the Tender’s Commission within at most 30 days from the date the offers were opened.