{"id":628726,"date":"2018-05-13T04:18:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T04:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/05\/13\/what-were-tracking-this-week-20\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T04:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T04:18:55","slug":"what-were-tracking-this-week-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/05\/13\/what-were-tracking-this-week-20\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re tracking this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our friends at Flat6Labs are holding their Cairo Spring demo day tomorrow. <\/strong>\u201cThe cycle brings a promising lineup of startups that work within software products in education, fintech, health & safety, consumer e-commerce, design, and media,\u201d the invite says. The event kicks off at 6:30pm CLT at the Semiramis InterContinental in downtown Cairo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>House to discuss Public Procurement Act this week:<\/strong> The House of Representatives\u2019 general assembly will discuss amendments to the Public Procurement Act sometime this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youm7.com\/story\/2018\/5\/12\/%D9%86%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B4%D8%A3%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B9-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9\/3789978\">Youm7 reports<\/a>. The law would grant Egyptian products preferential treatment in government contracts and promote local industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EETC to issue tender for electricity grid interconnection with Sudan \u201cwithin days\u201d: <\/strong>The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) will issue a local and global tender for power lines and transformers for the electricity grid interconnection project with Sudan \u201cwithin days,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/alborsanews.com\/2018\/05\/06\/1103186\">sources had said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Flat6Labs are holding their Cairo Spring demo day tomorrow. \u201cThe cycle brings a promising lineup of startups that work within software products in education, fintech, health &#038; safety, consumer e-commerce, design, and media,\u201d the invite says. The event kicks off at 6:30pm CLT at the Semiramis InterContinental in downtown Cairo. 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