E-Government: E-Tendering System

Electronic government or e-government is a new concept for government to serve the
citizen. Instead of using conventional technique, e-government could boost the
government's capabilities in serving the citizen. E-government is an approach which
using information and communication technology (ICT) in order to improve the
efficiency in providing services and information to citizen. While E-Tendering Systemis
an additional to enhancethe e-government services. For that, the objectiveof this project
is to make a study regardinge-government and e-tendering. The study mainly on how the
e-government helpingthe efficiency of public sectors in performing government services
to people. Besides that, another study regarding the current tender system and apply the
concept to the system that will be developed. The second objective is to develop a
prototype of e-government portal with e-tendering system. Based on the study from the
first objective, a prototype of an end product will be developed. Rapid Application
Development (RAD) is the method which will be used in this project. It is used due to
time constraint and it is suitable for short duration project. Besides that, RAD includes
developing a prototype in its phasebeforehaving a complete system. A questionnaire has
been distributed as the part of the study in order to gather more information from user
regarding e-government. The result is positively towards e-government which verifiesthe
efficiency of e-government portal to citizen while e-tendering system will improve its
efficiency. Some suggestions are also being carried out for future enhancement.