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Published on: 1/1/2006
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Basil NikasFounding Board MemberNational Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council
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A founding partner and President of the iCatalog Division of SicommNet, Mr. Nikas has concentrated his efforts in creating strategic alliances and fostering the growth of Electronic Commerce in the public sector arena.Mr. Nikas gathered a team of top public sector purchasing professionals and Internet/database technologists to develop end-to-end Internet based public purchasing services as the next paradigm in cross agency, co-op purchasing.The SicommNet Team is the leading e-Procurement service provider to the state and local market serving the states of Hawaii, Maine and Idaho and US Marine Corps Logistics Command with over 40,000 vendors and hundreds of thousands of commodity items listed in its master catalog trading partner service.
Mr. Nikas served as the ITAA (Information Technology Association of America) Delegate/Board Member on the NECCC, and was Chairman of the ITAA State and Local Public Enterprise Electronic Commerce Committee from 1998-2001.In December 2001, Mr. Nikas was voted a lifetime status of Ex-Officio Founding Board Member of NECCC along with Carolyn Purcell, Texas state CIO.
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Mr. Nikas chaired numerous committees on the NECCC such as the NECCC Privacy 2000 Work Group.Mr. Nikas also serves as Co-Chair of the NIGP (National Institute of Governmental Purchasing) Supplier Advisory Council.Mr. Nikas has spoken extensively throughout the United States on Electronic Procurement, E- Government, Internet Privacy and Security issues.
Mr. Nikas co-authored the NECCC "Privacy Policies: Are You Prepared" - a guidebook for state and local governments.He also prepared the NECCC Bulletin on "The Uniform Electronic Transaction Act (UETA) and House and Senate Bills HR 1714 and S 761."He was a task force member on NECCC publications "Electronic Commerce: A Blueprint for States," "E-Government Strategic Planning" and "Enterprise Electronic Government."He also wrote the chapter on "eProcurement in State and Local Government" for an all-encompassing book on eGovernment, which was published and distributed to over 5,000 state and local officials.
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