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To: dealmakr who wrote (16630)	2/2/2000 10:54:00 AM
From: brad greene	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

David, The tender was won by a consortium lead by Marpless....who is 51% owned by a Japanese trading company. Unisys is the systems integrator....and NEC is the AFIS and equipment supplier....so says the tender award. Since this is a 60 million member data base......I would think that it would be the NEC pre-sorting AFIS.....A configuration of the LS series. It would have to be. The cool part of this AFIS....is that the entry is "pre-sorted"......so that the entire data base is not searched....but only a subset. This makes the search much faster. Enrollments are pre-sorted and assigned a subset within the data base. IDX has been the supplier of NEC LS series 10 printers. I guess the question would be whether or not Hanis enrollment is a 10 printer application.....and whether or not IDX is still the subcontractor for NEC on these LS machines. I would think it would be a 10 printer deal. We have been following this project for over two years......and seeing Unisys and NEC in the winner's circle has really made us hopeful.......as IDT did Spain with Unisys.....and we have been working with NEC for several years now also. David would know....David.....Are we still on the NEC team for 10 printers?....and is this a 10 printer application? bg ps. I think IDX is reacting to Printrak's win in California today......I'm not so sure there would not be some business for IDX in that project......I believe we did LA County with EDS......and the Printrak announcement refers to the afis. IDX could have a piece of the input devices.

To: dealmakr who wrote (16630)	2/2/2000 12:02:00 PM
From: Hockeyfan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26039

Timing and Significance of HANIS Steve first post said that the cards would be deployed in the second half of 2001, which is consistent with this post which says, "The first batch of identity cards are expected to be issued free of charge to the public in September next year." "The Department of Home Affairs and Hanis' suppliers will load more than 40 million fingerprints onto a data base, making it the biggest of its kind in the world." I don't know if we are supplying livescanners and/or biometric smartcard readers, but it looks like this will start ramping up sometime next summer in order to be ready for the rollout. You will need a lot of Bio-ID readers to service 40 million smartcards! If we can get the FAA off their butts this year 2001 could get VERY busy. The billion dollar US government project might give us something to do until then. I think long-term thinkers might want to add to their position during the current employee selling before the window closes and the price starts to reflect the strong possibility of significant future business.