Alternative Public-Private Partnership Models?
It was recognised in 2001 that MITTS Ltd requires additional capacity in order to ensure that the far ranging and challenging programme of works of the Public Service can be fully accomplished. In this regard, MITTS Ltd created mechanisms whereby it could partner with the Private ICT Sector. The outsourcing mechanisms launched in 2001 proved to be beneficial to both MITTS Ltd and its clients, where the collaboration of the Private ICT Sector proved to be successful in most cases. Involvement of the local private sector ranged from desktop support to LAN installations, whilst the development of certain business applications were also done in partnership with the Private Sector. As part of MITTS Ltd strategy of focusing on Government’s sensitive and core areas, and allowing MITTS Ltd to focus its people on its business core activities, it is envisaged that the Private ICT Sector will continue to be involved by MITTS Ltd in order to allow it to complement its internal resource capacity. In fact, MITTS Ltd is viewing the Private ICT sector as being an extension of
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Government’s ICT resource capacity, and in so doing MITTS Ltd is actually embracing an alternative model of Public-Private Partnership. What is, however, a formal Public-Private Partnership is the management of the Swatar Training Centre (STC), where MITTS Ltd, the Office of the Prime Minister and Nucleus Ltd have in 2002 achieved positive results. The STC was appointed as a CISCO Networking Academy and a Microsoft Regional Academy. The latter two enriched the STC international certification portfolio that already included UK’s NCC Certification.
