DM receives Tejari award for the third time

He said this step will coincide with the constant developments witnessed by the city of Dubai and will be supporting the government's plan for the e-government.

Sultan also praised the big role played by Tejari.com in setting up a support base for e-market for exchanging online trade between commercial establishments, companies and organizations.

He said that it has become easy for interaction and conversation for conducting deals and accomplishing business and save a lot on expenditure and thereby get more profits. "We now get more opportunities for accessing new markets, all this with full control over provision and supply. Dubai Municipality support Tejari.com according to its keenness for developing its online commercial transactions," Sultan said.

He noted that the Municipality is keen to transform its transactions and it sincerely believes that there is a necessity for positive partnership with different categories of the society.

"Dubai Municipality has tried to educate and encourage suppliers to join Tejari.com for an effective impact in the purchasing procedures and take online biddings. In order to achieve this the Purchasing Section has conducted 29 educational and orientation seminars at the Municipality Staff Club explaining the peculiarities of Tejari system. In these seminars conducted in co-ordination with Tejari.com, 1800 suppliers, who are in the list of registered suppliers of the Municipality's Purchasing Section, participated," said Sultan.

He said this on the occasion of Dubai Municipality receiving, for a third consecutive year, the Tejari award for the most successful department in conducting campaigns to encourage them to join Tejari system.

The award was presented to Dubai Municipality by Sheikha Lubna Al Qassimi, CEO, Tejari.com on Tuesday at the Tejari stall at the GITEX 2004 in the World Trade Centre. The award was received by Eng. Essa Al Maidour, Director of Contracts and Purchasing Department in the presence of Tareq Al Khaja, Head of Purchasing Section and Ismail Kazim, Head of Purchasing Unit.

The Municipality received the award thanks to the relentless efforts of the Purchasing Section in spreading the culture of e- transaction through Tejari portal and encouraging the suppliers to join Tejari.com. The section conducted a number of seminars explaining the advantages of using e-transactions. A good number of major suppliers attended these seminars.

It is worth mentioning that Dubai Municipality had received last year the award for being the best among the local government departments for achieving the highest percentage of biddings through Tejari portal. Before last year the Municipality received the award for the best government department for getting the largest number of suppliers registered with Tejari. Until August 2004, the Municipality has achieved the feat of getting a total of 4,600 biddings through Tejari.com and the number of suppliers who registered with the Tejari portal rose to 750.

The Contracts and Purchasing Department is keen to increase the number of e-transactions which is considered to be a part of the strategy and vision of the Government of Dubai in order to implement the e-Government in different government departments. It is also considered to be part of the vision and strategy of Dubai Municipality to enhance its work and transform from traditional to modern electronic methods that saves time and expenditure and reduces the work pressure. It has a big positive impact in rendering excellent purchasing service to all its customers, internal as well as external.