Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by fieryeagle » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 3:42 AM UTC

Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore
gbuy.gds-gov.tech

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by ivank » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 5:10 AM UTC

FYI: "Bidders must have a bank account in Singapore to receive payment for work done."

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by breakingcups » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 7:02 AM UTC

Interesting! This kind of forking and hopefully inter-government OSS co-operation is exactly what I've been hoping to see.

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by yen223 » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 7:37 AM UTC

Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by doppp » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 9:44 AM UTC

yen223 wrote: post #4

Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.

It's pretty common. We have G-Cloud Cloudstore [1] and GeBIZ [2] among other things.

[1] https://www.ida.gov.sg/programmes-partnership/sectors/G-Clou... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeBIZ

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by Gigablah » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 10:37 AM UTC

doppp wrote: post #5

yen223 wrote: post #4

Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.

It's pretty common. We have G-Cloud Cloudstore [1] and GeBIZ [2] among other things. [1] https://www.ida.gov.sg/programmes-partnership/sectors/G-Clou... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeBIZ

They're alluding to the fact that Gbuy sounds similar to a Hokkien profanity :)

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by b2m9 » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 11:32 AM UTC

yen223 wrote: post #4

Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.

Probably the reason why they label it as "GovBuy" instead ;)

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by softwarelimits » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 2:29 PM UTC

Does anybody have a list of similar gov services around the world?

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by softwarelimits » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 3:04 PM UTC

And btw it would be very interesting if anybody from the US would like to write a little bit about the role of 18F - I am not sure that I understand things right, but it seems to be a very interesting concept of governmental IT services.

How is this agency perceived? How does it work out in practice? How are things coordinated? Anything would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Re: Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

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Post by andrefrancisco » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 3:24 PM UTC

softwarelimits wrote: post #9

And btw it would be very interesting if anybody from the US would like to write a little bit about the role of 18F - I am not sure that I understand things right, but it seems to be a very interesting concept of governmental IT services. How is this agency perceived? How does it work out in practice? How are things coordinated? Anything would be appreciated! Thanks!

Hello! Happy to answer any questions you have about 18F. The basics: we're an office of federal employees inside the General Services Administration that helps other federal agencies improve how they build, buy, and share technology. Other agencies have to pay us for our work, so we operate in a similar way to a private business. You can see a summary of the types of things we ship (with examples) here https://18f.gsa.gov/what-we-deliver/. More info about the micro-purchase platform here https://18f.gsa.gov/tags/micro-purchase-platforms/

*I'm an 18F employee.