Around 20,000 PCs are used by Yokohama city workers, that are connected to YCAN, Yokohama City Administration Network.
City of Yokohama announced
an open-type designated competitive bidding for OpenOffice.org verification and evaluation support service subcontracting.
The bid was opened on Aug. 5th, 2010.
Bidders were five.
1.
K.K. Ashisuto
bid: 1,151,500 yen - winning bidder
2.
NTT COMWARE CORPORATION
bid: 3,000,000 yen
3.
Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
bid: 9,500,000 yen
4.
NEC Corporation Kanagawa Branch
bid: 28,540,000 yen
5.
Accenture
bid: 37,680,000 yen
see:
http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/somu/soumu/keiri/nyuusatukekka/H22/220805/1.pdf