Gerard Arendsen

- Has over 32 years of experience in consultancy as well as in project-management of international ICT projects, tendering telecommunications and ICT; network-development; strategy development, development telecom service supply, feasibility studies on telecom and IT; FDI; ICT outsourcing; tender-evaluation; project-evaluation; investment feasibility studies; traffic analysis, export-promotion; etc. - Procurement expert with experience of preparing procurement documentation for European Commission funded supplies and services projects, particularly concerning IT and telecommunications procurement. Incl. determination functional requirements; technical specifications; tender-preparation; compilation of tender dossiers; determination conditions of supply; bid-evaluation; negotiations with short-listed suppliers; monitoring ICT Tenders, etc. Familiar with PRAG-rules and various EDF procurement rules. - Product experience: fixed networks; IP-networks; IP-Broadband; fibre-optics; SDH and optical networks; IP-connectivity; leased lines; LAN-networks; IT-equipment; WLL/WBA; VoIP; VPN; VSAT; GSM/GPRS; 2.5G and 3G. - Assignments have been carried out for companies as Philips Electronics, Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel, Pirelli, Deutsche Telekom and KPN and for organizations as the EU-Commission (Incl. EURO-Aid and EU-SDP), US Dept. of Commerce, The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the OECD, etc. Regions active: Europe (East and West); Mid-East; Caucasus region; Pakistan, Nigeria; Uganda; Burundi; etc.