2018-05-22 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING REPORT                                                                    22 MAY 2018


Ultimately, the tender process solicited five tender applications: One Established
enterprise (Atmail) and four Emerging enterprises (Alkira, Commtract, PB Research &
Development and GrowOnline).

 Tenderer Business Name        Description (200 word pitch extracted from Tender document)
 Atmail                        We’ve help solve email hosting headaches for telecommunications and
                               hosting service providers across every continent, thanks to our ability to
                               provide trusted and customised solutions, either hosted on our cloud or
                               by providing software to power the provider’s cloud platforms. Today, we
                               power over 40 million mailboxes worldwide and offer global support
                               coverage with the help of our team members in Australia, the United
                               States, India and Europe. If you’re looking for a trusted email hosting
                               partner, so you can get back to core business, we can help.
 Alkira                        Akira Software is a business changing the lives of blind people with a
                               novel intelligent, talking web browser. The Alkira solution solves a
                               significant problem where blind and low vision people (BVI) cannot
                               access web portals delivering life-essential services. Large local
                               councils, corporate entities and advocacy groups are the first target
                               customers. In the next iteration the software will, using AI and machine
                               learning will allow the addition of voice services to navigation and
                               transact with websites without requiring website changes. It can be used
                               with Google home, Amazon Alexa or Apple Siri. The tool will allow
                               millions of small & medium enterprises utilise the new medium without
                               the additional infrastructure cost.
 Commtract                     Commtract is Australia’s first marketplace and support network for
                               communications professionals. Our mission is to connect organisations
                               from large corporations to local councils, with the world’s best
                               communications talent. We help our clients by allowing them to access
                               flexible, high quality professionals to quickly meet their communications
                               needs. We help our consultants by finding them exciting work
                               opportunities and simplifying the business of consulting. Commtract is
                               owned and operated by former communications professionals. We
                               understand the industry and the issues.
 PB Research &                 Our product, heypiggybank.com, is a consumer savings product for
 Development (Trading as       people to invest and own cryptocurrencies. With the intention for users
 PiggyBank)                    to subscribe to a monthly plan (e.g $30) to buy & transfer
                               cryptocurrencies to their PiggyBank. And when the time comes, users
                               can “break their PiggyBank” to withdraw funds to a nominated bank-
                               account. The product is targeted towards the “average Joe” who would
                               like to own crypto-currencies, however due to the technical and security
                               barriers, hesitates to make the leap. PiggyBank makes it easy for
                               consumers to own and hold crypto’s with a few clicks - Made for mobile,
                               a simple on-boarding process, and designed with security in mind.
 GrowOnline                    GrowOnline provide a complete, end-to-end, integrated, inbound digital
                               marketing solution for small businesses at low cost.
3.   Tender Assessment
Four of the five applications successfully met the tender criteria that assessed the applicants’
financial capacity, business and individual talent, technology fit and cultural fit. One applicant,
GrowOnline, has withdrawn from the tender process and are in discussions with Council regarding
co-work options at the Hub.
Due to the commercial in confidence nature of the tender submissions, and the fact that commercial
negotiations over lease terms and rental payments has yet to be finalised, a confidential tender
assessment information document is provided at Attachment 2.
Based on the preferred floorspace configuration detailed in the tender responses, and subject to
awarding of tender, the successful tender submitters could all be accommodated in the upper
floor area with minimal space available for additional private office tenants when factoring-in
forecasted head-count growth.

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