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Asim: Government purchasing stalls due to high risk and zero reward for change
“I would say that the biggest thing really is the high risk and no reward for change. You know, like if you have an IT in any government purchasing decision, you're not gonna have one buyer. You're gonna have multiple buyers from each department.”
Asim: Government buyers reject startups in favor of mature, established vendors
“Startups are a bad word. You know, when we were first doing demos with judges, and court clerks, and administrators, and IT, that's one of the first things we'd say. We'd say, you know, we're a startup working with court reminders, court notification system. I…”
Asim: Government agencies refuse to accept legal risk or indemnification
“If you are going to work with government, which I don't recommend, the terms of service, the jurisdiction, like anything that really is related to their risk, there's a There's a legal term for the indemnification. Thank you, sir. Anything related to that, the…”
Asim: GovTech referral programs must use agency credits over cash
“So we can't give a government employee, you know, 50 dollars or a hundred dollars to go do a referral on G-II. It just doesn't work. They're not legally allowed to. Technically they can accept less than 50 dollar gifts, but even then it's not looked, ah, kindl…”
Asim: Government RFP implementations take up to a year post-award
“Basically any RFP project is automatically going to be a longer project. So they may have already taken a year to, prior to us winning the RFP, and then it may take another year from there to actually go through and do the implementation. And so really the one…”