MyEmail project is non-exclusive: Pemandu

By Presenna Nambiar

Published: 2011/05/06

Kuala Lumpur: The MyEmail project is a non-exclusive project and any interested party is free to submit a proposal, Performance Management And Delivery Unit (Pemandu) says.

Pemandu's communications content and infrastructure for business services (National Key Economic Areas) director Dr Fadhlullah Suhaimi Abdul Malek told Business Times this yesterday via e-mail.

This gives the green light to postal company Pos Malaysia Bhd to send in its own proposal.

Yesterday, its group managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Syed Faisal Albar said the company is keen to participate in the MyEmail project and that it has "pretty much formulated a plan" for it.

Currently, government mails, notices and statements make up about RM20 million, or 3 per cent, of Pos Malaysia's total mail revenue.


"If there is any company that can come up with a better, cheaper and even more secure email service, the government and public agencies are completely at liberty to use their services.

"There is no fixed term contract to any company that is selected to provide this service. Any contract will be negotiated on open market commercial terms," Fadhlullah said.

Proposals submitted for MyEmail, an Entry Point Project , are assessed by a team that includes Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit and GITN Sdn Bhd to ensure that only sustainable and implementable business models are supported.

Every proposal is assessed based on best in-practice technology, sustainable business model, track record and security.

To date, financially-troubled Tricubes Bhd is the first company selected by the team.

Meanwhile, Syed Faisal said the management of the company is not privy to the business plans DRB-HICOM Bhd may have for the company.

"I believe all parties are observing the fact that the sale has not been completed yet, there is certain condition precedence that has to be met between Khazanah Nasional Bhd and DRB-HICOM and some of it is beyond the control of the both of them.

"So, we respect that, and only when it is finalised and concluded, we (DRB-HICOM and Pos Malaysia) will engage with each other," he said.

On April 22, Khazanah announced that DRB-HICOM had won the bid for its 32.2 per cent stake in Pos Malaysia.

Both parties have under two months to seal the deal.

On its 15 per cent stake in Transmile Group Bhd, Syed Faisal said Pos Malaysia will only make a decision once the group completes its regularisation plan.

Transmile managed to secure creditors' approval for its debt restructuring plan in mid-April.


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