An Introspective Look at the Liberalization of G2B Electronic Trading Service

摘要

The Government announced on April 7 that a new service operator, Global e-Trading Services Ltd. (Ge-TS) was awarded a license to provide front-end Government Electronic Trading Services (GETS) and other related value-added services to the trading community of Hong Kong starting from 2004. The objective of this appointment is to enable the new service provider to compete with the incumbent operator on price and quality, and in developing other value-added services, to the benefit of the trading community. The Ge-TS appointment is for a period of five years from 2004 to 2008, and is extendable by the Government for another two years. The paper will discuss an innovative system architecture of GETS which contributes to a technical superiority system for its service. The writer will introduce the system's features, marketing strategy as well as its technical aspects to describe how a highly secure, robust and scalable platform is created to configure the support of new electronic trade documents in future. Unlike other Government tenders, the project employs an operation-outsourcing model in which Ge-TS shares a substantial portion of the project risk with the Government and recovers her cost through service fee charged to traders. The paper will analyze those benefits brought to the government in details.