Omesti wins 2nd phase of e-Courts court digitisation programme

KUALA LUMPUR: Omesti Bhd, which completed the first phase of e-Courts in 2011, has secured the RM31.015mil contract for the second phase of the court infrastructure digitisation programme.

In a filing with Bursa Malaysia on Tuesday, the technology solutions provider said its 51% owned indirect subsidiary Formis Network Services Sdn Bhd was awarded the job subject to a formal contract agreement to be inked with the Government in due course. 

Omesti said the 18-month Phase 2 contract was scheduled to begin on Jan 15 and be completed by July 14, 2017.

“The e-Courts Phase 2 contract is expected to contribute positively to the revenue, net assets per share and earnings of the Omesti group for the financial year ending March 31, 2016 and 2017,” it said.

Omesti, then known as Formis Resources Bhd, won the phase 1 contract worth RM69.84mil in August 2009, which involved installing and maintaining an integrated e-courts system in 166 courts in Selangor, Penang, Johor, Sarawak as well as Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur within a year.

It was required to set up three systems, encompassing e-filing, case management and queue management system, and court recording and transcription. The aim was to speed up the disposal of cases.

In a press statement, the company said under Phase 2, 15 more government agencies would be linked to the new platform via a new integration layer that controlled all transactions, helping to streamline operations between the different authorities.

Within the first quarter, it plans to address the current storage capacity and performance challenges faced by the courts. 

"These challenges have been exacerbated recently due to the rapidly rising level of registered users, all of whom are wanting to automate their transactions," it said.

Month 11 of the project will see deployment of the new platform to two new sites - Ayer Keroh and Kuantan.

The new solution will then be implemented at sites where the existing system is currently in operation.

The final release will see gradual deployment to 12 additional sites across the peninsula -- in Penang, Kedah, Perak, Terengganu, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Kelantan, Johor and Perlis.

In a separate filing with Bursa Malaysia, Omesti said its vice-chairman Datuk Mah Siew Kwok had been appointed to its executive committee in place of Omesti’s former chief executive officer Datuk Larry Gan Nyap Liou@Gan Nyap Liow, who resigned as group CEO and the executive committee’s chairman effective Dec 31, 2015.

Omesti shares shed 1 sen to close at 51 sen on Tuesday.