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- From: timk@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
- Subject: Re: The Government's "Open" Bidding Service
- Organization: TDK Consulting Services
- Distribution: tor
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:39:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.213905.1988@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- References: <2A65A18B.24D3@telly.on.ca>
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- In <2A65A18B.24D3@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >I received some information yesterday on the manor in which Supply and
- >Services Canada intends to distribute its tenders.
- >
- >There is now a database called "Open Bidding Service" (OBS), accessable
- >through Datapac.
-
- [...]
-
- >I would like to hear from anyone else using this service, whether it's
- >possible to use the system efficiently, or if you eat up considerable
- >on-line time through menus.
-
- I once used an older version of the system, a BBS thing they had put
- together which not did >not< have full screen cursor addressing, but
- insisted on putting an ascii box around every menu! There was no 'expert'
- mode, no short-cuts. You had to use the menus, like it or not. If you
- wanted to go from one section to another, you had to traverse all the
- intermediate menus as well to get to what you wanted.
-
- >Also, is there anyone else out there interested in pooling on an
- >account? I'm moderately interested in what's there, but not to the tune
- >of $130 per year (+ $100 to be prepaid on the account).
-
- Plus the ~$25 / hr or so useage charge.
-
- If they'd get a clue, they'd make a new newsgroup can.govtender and
- get some *real* response. ;-)
-
- > Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- > evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
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