E-Government: A gateway in helping the efficiency of public sector in Malaysia focusing on e-tendering system

Electronic government is a new paradigm to Malaysia citizens which has been
embarked by the government of Malaysia in order to provide services electronically. EGovernment:
A gateway in helping the efficiency ofpublic sector in Malaysia focusing
on e-tendering system is the collaboration between electronic government (egovernment)
and the application of electronic tendering system (e-tender). It can be
regard as the adding value process to the e-government. The rationale to embedded etendering
system in the e-government is to increase and improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of the functionality of e-government in providing services to citizens.
There are two objectives that have been set for this project. The first objective is to
perform a small scale of study regarding e-government and tender system, and the
second objective is to develop a simple prototype of e-government website that
providing e-tendering system. For the methodology, Rapid Application Development
(RAD) approach has been employed. The methodology has been chosen because it is
effective and suitable for short duration project. It was designed for developer and user
to join together and work intensively toward their goal. By using the RAD
methodology, the project is able to be completed within the time allocated. In the
discussion part, it covers all the result that obtains from the project completion which
includes systemarchitecture, database architectureand result testing. In order to provide
better services, some suggestion being carried out for future enhancement. This can
improve the current system to be more efficient and effective.