Automation of SACCOs - FSD Kenya

50 • AUTOMATION OF SACCOS: ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS
AnnEX 1
open-enDeD queStionS
1. Please provide a detailed company profile, including information
such as but not limited to number of employees, head office location,
locations in Kenya, products and services offered, experience in the
SACCO sector.
2. Please describe your proposed solution and its components
in detail. Which are the specific properties of your offering that allow
SACCOs to comply with regulation and support the unique features of
the SACCO business model?
3. Please provide a schematic illustrating the architecture and
components of your solution on a high level. You can either include the
schematic in the Word document with your answers to the open-ended
questions or use a separate Word document, with an appropriate file
name.
4. Please explain clearly how FoSA, BoSA, and accounting
components are integrated in your solution.
5. Does your solution offer an accounting and management
reporting framework adhering to IFRS and best practice
management reporting including operational and financial data? Please
provide a detailed view on the properties of your solution.
6. Does your system offer dedicated risk management
functionality? Please provide details.
7. What are the specific properties of your offering with regard to userfriendliness?
8. Which specific features of your solution help to make it more flexible
and scalable than others?
9. Please describe your experience with implementing the
proposed solution in Kenyan SACCOs. We are interested in the number
as well as the variety of implementations. Please provide information
on the SACCOs where it has been implemented, e.g. their business
model, size, location, etc.
10. Have you completed any implementation in SACCOs with more than
one branch? Please provide a detailed picture of your experience
with regard to branch integration, segmentation and consolidation of
data, connectivity and (real-time) updates, data integrity, inter-branch
transactions, etc.
11. What does your usual application support and maintenance
agreement look like? What is your change request procedure? Please
provide details.
12. Please provide detailed information on your pricing model, including
but not limited to licence fees, implementation cost, customisation cost,
training cost, support and maintenance fees, cost of futures upgrades.