Unisys South Africa
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Here is some data on the HANIS project in South Africa. (Home Affairs National Identification System) This clip is from the Daily Reporter....a business journal in SA.... February, 1999.
It is my understanding, that a protest to this contract has now been thrown out....and that the infrastructure for this project is expected to be in place by July, 2000. The project has an initial price tag of about $300 million US......and another $300 million in residuals/maintainence.
The reason I post this....is that I don't think UIS has said much about it....and revenues may begin flowing very soon. I follow Identix (IDX)....a biometric company that works closely with NEC and UIS.....so for IDX, this would be a wonderful project....almost doubling their yearly sales. HANIS is also the largest biometric/afis application to date....and will set the world standards going forward.
Here is the clip: Remember it is from Feb, 1999.
3. FIVE-YEAR DEADLINE SET FOR NATIONAL ID SYSTEM: BUSINESS DAY, 19990216, P.15 - A combination of foreign skills, black empowerment partners and new recruits will be needed to implement a new national identification system in the next five years. The home affairs tender for a fingerprint-based system, officially awarded at the weekend, will see Unisys SA install the system, Japanese electronics heavyweight NEC supply fingerprint recognition technology, and Polaroid create new identity cards for every citizen. The companies are subcontractors for the project manager, the MarPless consortium, a joint venture between technology company Plessey and Marubeni, a Japanese trading house. The home affairs department wants the system implemented within five years, rather than the eight years initially envisaged. That should help the system pay for itself more quickly, since a major aim is to reduce fraud by detecting false claims for services such as pensions.
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