Bhutan e-Government Master Plan and avoiding unnecessary paper works. The system will also ensure transparency in the entire tendering procedures. Since the e-GP every bidder anywhere system will with will manage have an access internet the tenders electronically on a website, to the connection. tendering This information will ensure anytime large and coverage of bidders and wider competition. MoF will consider the use of Software as a Service (SaaS), a software model with the procurement computing application centrally hosted environment so that all ministries and in a government agencies cloud can access over the Internet. Such a model brings about benefits of low cost of ownership, capital expenditure, (ASP) deliver SaaS on an agreed and rapid deployment. on a “pay-per-use” service level agreement. Application Service no Providers basis or a monthly/annual fee based They will manage reliability, availability, scalability, security and back-end service system updates, integration, if required — thereby relieving IT staff to support strategic business functions. For a start, the system tenders based on will support the value small value of purchases. purchases, quotations For the activity, which and includes capacity development and the development of system, an estimate of Nu 34 million of Capital Budget is proposed. ili) National Spatial Data Infrastructure The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has steadily increased over the last decade. There is now a major investment in both GIS technology and GIS related data. Unfortunately, many of the applications were developed in isolation with different government development. As a consequence, agencies pioneering there is redundancy their own GIS in data and extensive duplication of effort and wastage of resources. As the need of the country expands and the realization of the potential of GIS became more pronounced, the standalone GIS systems became deficiencies and shortcomings of the evident. There is also a lack of proper geo information policies, unorganized GIS community and incompatible data sets. The Cabinet has directed the National Land Commission agency in developing the National Spatial Data (NLC) to be the lead Infrastructure (NSDI). NLC