ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) will develop aFinancial Control Portal (FCP) to replace its current system to improvecore tracking and work flow efficiencies.
The developers would prepare, deploy and maintain Financial Control Portaland provide a complete turn-key solution in English Language for theAuthority.
Official sources at PTA on Tuesday said a comprehensive database managementsolution of international quality is required to provide controlled accessto admins and employees along with a contact point to consumers as well.
Financial Control Portal will be based at Head Office and would beintegrated with zonal offices located at Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta,Rawalpindi, Multan, Muzaffarabad and Gilgit – with flexibility for futureexpansions.
Moreover, the sources said using this portal, consumers would be able tofile their application for a new resource, track their application andenter data in PTA database.
Employees of divisions, who are not the admin, would be given access forentry of records having provision of attaching a Word/Excel/PDF document;however, all updates would be done by authorized officers of the division.
Users will be able to issue demand notes, reminders, generate reports andrecord book payment in system when received.
The Portal would contain data consistency and error checks to be put inplace to monitor the data entered.
The system behind the Portal would have to be integrated with anothersystem, especially internal communication module, for real-time datatransfer in desired format. The system would be implemented on SecureSocket Link (SSL) and only authenticated users would be allowed to accessthe system as per their defined rights and privileges.
Admin(s) of the database would be PTA Officer(s) having full access to thesystem through secure logins, authorized to perform the tasks includingData Input, Data Modification and Data Reporting.
In this regard PTA has sought Request for Proposal (RFP) from consultantfirms for development of FCP. The RFP must reach at PTA on or before 10.00a.m. on September 25, 2018. – APP