The school is an ivory tower, out of the school gate, it will run to the rivers and lakes, so many years, I don't know whether I should be tired of the rivers and lakes, or fall in love with the rivers and lakes, or still miss the ivory tower in my heart.

One day in late May 2008, a group of Hongyan Technology responsible for bidding for the data warehouse project rushed to the central province by train, and the salesman Xiaoli couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart. Xiaoli is a young girl studying art, less than two years after graduating from university, and this is her first time participating in the bidding for a mega project.

With a budget of more than 10 million yuan, the central telecom data warehouse project is already an unprecedented project for this province that is not a developed coastal region. As for Xiaoli, she had only signed a few small contracts in Donghai Province before, and none of them exceeded one million.

Although it is only in the south of the Yangtze River in May, the weather outside the car window is already very hot, and what is even hotter is Xiaoli's mood, it took two whole weeks, and the technicians stayed up countless nights to make the bid, which is lying quietly in the cardboard box at the foot at the moment, and will be handed over to the central telecommunications project team early tomorrow morning, which is the moment to decide the outcome of the game.

Liu Gang, the department manager of the same company, and Xiao Wang, the engineer, fell asleep in the seats next to them, and they were too tired to fight for two weeks in a row. Liu Gang came from a technical background, and it is not easy to go from a developer and project manager to today's department manager. Xiao Wang is a good hand he has just poached from his competitors, and he doesn't talk much, but his skills are very good.

This project should be nine out of ten, Xiaoli thought beautifully in her heart, and almost laughed out loud.

Headquartered in Donghai Province, an economically developed coastal area, Hongyan is a company known for its technology. Over the years, most of Donghai Telecom's informatization construction projects have been undertaken by Hongyan Company, and the company's performance has been good. However, Hongyan Company has no experience in developing business in other provinces.

Three months ago, Lin Zhengjiang, deputy general manager of Donghai Telecom, was transferred to Central China Telecom as the top leader. And it was this Mr. Lin who not only spoke highly of Hongyan Technology when he was serving in Donghai Province, but also personally called Wang Yifan, the CEO of Hongyan Company, after arriving in Central Province, and invited him to participate in the data warehouse project. Wang Yifan has traveled back and forth between the two provinces many times to meet with Mr. Lin for this matter.

With Mr. Wang on top, this project should not be able to run! Xiaoli thought so, she was even planning how to spend the project's commission bonus, buy a new laptop for her boyfriend, or go on a trip? Hehehe.

When they arrived in the capital city of the central province, the three of them found a popular express hotel to live in, and after washing their faces briefly, Xiaoli came to Liu Gang's room.

"Leader, I'll take you to a good food stall for dinner!"

"Have you confirmed tomorrow's arrangement with Dr. Yang?" Liu Gang is from a technical background, and he is still relatively careful. Dr. Yang is a member of the Information Technology Department of the Bureau, and was entrusted with the important role of project manager shortly after joining the work.

"Submit the bid at half past eight tomorrow, and then it's okay, I confirmed this with Yang Bo the day before yesterday, don't worry! Yang Bo is good to me! ”

After dinner, the three of them walked around the street, and Xiao Wang proposed to go back to sleep, too, too tired, and had nothing to say all night.

At eight o'clock the next morning, Xiaoli and her sisters came to the conference room designated by the bureau for bidding neatly and energetically, waiting for the personnel of Central Telecom. After a while, people from competitors Yada and Wells Fargo Software also arrived at the scene, and everyone greeted each other very politely. Yada is a returnee company and an industry leader. The background of Wells Fargo Software is somewhat similar to that of Hongyan Technology, coming from another developed coastal area.

At half past eight, Yang Bo and Chen Feng from the Central Telecom Network Development Department came to the conference room together. Chen Feng is an old man in the network development department, and he has handled a lot of bidding work for construction projects over the years, giving people the impression that he is not smiling and not very approachable. Liu Gang took the initiative to greet Chen Feng with a smile, but Chen Feng was expressionless. After the people of the three companies handed in the bidding documents and bid deposit vouchers and other relevant documents in order, Chen Feng called the salesmen of the three manufacturers together, took out three pre-folded notes, and said: "Come, the three of you will draw lots to decide the order of the on-site bidding!" ”

Chen Feng's voice was not loud, but to Xiaoli's ears, it was tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day. What the? Speak the mark! Didn't you say that you would be notified after the tender was submitted?!

Xiaoli's face turned blue, she opened her mouth wide but didn't make any sound, and looked at Yang Bo, but Yang Bo lowered his head to avoid Xiaoli's gaze. Xiaoli turned her head to look at Liu Gang, Liu Gang's face was also pale, although he took Xiao Wang to accompany Xiaoli to the Central Province to bid out of caution, but he did not prepare for the bid in advance. And Liu Gang's Lao Zhang, who was in charge of the bidding, was attending a meeting in Beijing at this time, and it was too late to put on his wings and fly over!

What went wrong? What to do!

Liu Gang quickly went through the situation of contact with Central Telecom during this period of time in his mind.

Soon after the project was launched, Director Li of the Central Telecommunications and Information Technology Department led a team to Donghai Province for an inspection, accompanied by Yang Bo and Chen Feng, as well as Xiaojuan of the business center. The people from the central province were warmly received by Donghai Telecom, and they had a special exchange to learn about the construction of Donghai Telecom's data warehouse, which was built by Hongyan Technology and is a benchmark in the telecommunications industry.

Director Li and his entourage did not have to say anything about the inspection of Hongyan Company, General Manager Wang Yifan personally accompanied the whole process, and the whole company was mobilized to greet customers meticulously. It can be seen that Director Li is very satisfied, and in the process of going to the scenic spot after the inspection, Xiaoli gave full play to her strengths and coaxed everyone very happy.

The business center of Central Telecom is the actual user of this data warehouse project, and the head of the business center is a female general, named Hu Caixia, with a pungent personality and excellent technology, and is a well-known figure in the entire industry. The last time Hongyan Company came to Central Province to do technical exchanges, Liu Gang sent Lao Zhang to give a lecture, and at the meeting, he had a very heated discussion with Miss Hu.

Miss Hu is such a person with character, and she is still very convinced by people with real skills. Don't look at her arguing with Lao Zhang at the meeting, but she has a good impression of Lao Zhang after the meeting, and the two chat tirelessly on QQ every day. By the way, Lao Zhang's full name is Zhang Zhenrong, and he has served in the famous United Information Company for many years before joining Hongyan Technology, and has rich experience in pre-sales.

Another department involved in this project is the Network Development Department, which is actually the procurement department of Central Telecom, and handles countless large and small projects every year. Traditionally, the Ministry of Information Technology (MIIT) should lead a highly technical project such as a data warehouse, and the Network Development Department is only responsible for monitoring business processes. Director Guo of the Network Development Department has worked in Central Telecom for more than ten years, and he is a very good-tempered person, always with a smile on his face, coupled with his already a somewhat bald brain, which gives people a very amiable impression.

The last time they came to the Central Province, Liu Gang and Xiaoli went to visit Director Guo and brought valuable famous specialties from Donghai Province. Later, the gift was confiscated by Director Guo, but he was very polite, saying that they would resolutely implement Mr. Lin's ideas in project decision-making, please rest assured that Liu Gang. After the meeting, Director Guo was sent to the door, which made Liu Gang and them a little flattered.

There shouldn't be anything wrong, but what's going on? Liu Gang settled down and saw Xiaoli looking over with an anxious face. "Blame me too, what kind of Beijing did Lao Zhang send at a critical moment!" Liu Gang thought so, it's too late to regret it now, don't panic, panic won't work.

"It's okay, you can draw lots." Liu Gang said to Xiaoli in as calm a tone as possible.

Also in this conference room, there is another person who is not a taste in his heart, this person is Dr. Yang Kun of Central Telecom.

Half a year ago, Yang Kun graduated from a famous institution of higher learning in Beijing, with a doctorate, he did not choose to stay in Beijing to work, but returned to his hometown of Central Province, although the Central Province is not an economically developed area, but to be able to enter the Central Telecom such a company to work, enough to make Yang Kun's classmates and hometown villagers envy and praise.

After reporting to Central Telecom, Yang Bo was first arranged by the company to be on duty in the grassroots computer room for exercise. Two months ago, the data warehouse project was launched, and he was named to join the project team, which was a rare opportunity once in a century.

After a period of work, Yang Bo has an understanding of the three companies involved in the project competition, Yada is strong, and one-third of the country's regional telecommunications companies have large-scale informatization projects built by them, but they seem to have little interest in the central province, maybe it is a long way, they have not done any projects in the central province before, and this time it seems that they are just going through the motions. Phu Quoc Software is from Straits Province, they have done a lot of projects in the Central Province, there are technical personnel stationed in the Central Province, and they chose the hardware platform of ABN, one of the most powerful IT companies in the world, for the data warehouse project built by Telecom in Straits Province. Although Hongyan Technology has not done any projects in the central province, the data warehouse project they built in Donghai Province has been praised by the headquarters of the telecom group for many times, and the TMD they chose is the most powerful data warehouse hardware platform in the industry.

From the bottom of his heart, Yang Bo is more inclined to Hongyan Company, not because Hongyan Company has a good relationship with Boss Lin, but because the application of Hongyan Technology is really good, and this is what Central Telecom needs most at present.

However, there is often a big gap between reality and ideals. In the previous paragraph, there were already rumors that he had a close past with Hongyan Company, and he was suspected of patting the boss's ass. Director Li also talked to him once, and reminded him seriously not to get too close to the manufacturer's people in public, Yang Bo knew that the director was referring to the matter of being commensurate with Xiaoli's brothers and sisters in Donghai Province, and that time everyone drank a little high.

Yesterday afternoon, during the regular meeting of the project team, it was decided to announce the bid immediately today, because someone has to travel next week and cannot get enough people. Yang Bo felt that things came a little suddenly, but looking at the rest of the project team, he didn't seem surprised at all. At that time, Yang Bo asked, "Then how to notify the manufacturer?" ”

"There is no need to be notified, the invitation to bid originally stated that the manufacturer was required to bring technical personnel to come with the tender when the tender was delivered, and this time it was just to inspect the resilience of each manufacturer." Hearing Chen Feng say this, Yang Bo was silent.

After the meeting, Yang Bo has been thinking about whether to call Xiaoli, after all, two days ago, Xiaoli asked about the bidding and replied that they would have to wait for the notice. But forget it, or someone should gossip again, it is estimated that Xiaoli will contact me when she arrives, and I will tell her when Xiaoli takes the initiative to ask this question, so that there will be no problems. Yang Bo watched TV in the dormitory all night last night and waited for Xiaoli's call, but in the end he didn't wait for the call, and then fell asleep in a daze.

Looking at Xiaoli's helpless appearance, Yang Bo was full of apologies, but he couldn't say anything.

"Yada Company will talk first, Fuguo Software will follow, and Hongyan Technology will probably have to talk in the afternoon."

Hearing such a lottery result, Yang Bo and Liu Gang breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts at the same time. Fortunately, there is still time to remedy!