Digitext Asia Corp. on Tuesday won the open-bidding for the Department of Transportation and Communications' (DOTC)
Land Transportation Office (LTO)-Road Transportation IT Infrastructure Project.
The DOTC said Digitext outbid four other firms with its offer of P3.8 billion, the lowest among the five of the nine who purchased bid documents.
With an Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) of P8.2 billion, the bidding pushed through after the Court of Appeals set aside the temporary restraining order issued by a Quezon City court against the project.
Besides Digitext, the other bidders were Fritz and Macziol Asia, Eurolink Network, International Corp., Kaisa Consulting and Ceragon Network.
Fritz and Macziol Asia submitted the second lowest bid at P5.3 billion, while Eurolink was third lowest with at P5.8 billion. The financial bids of Kaisa and Ceragon were not opened because of lack of technical requirements.
Kaisa was considered as non-complying for lack of schedule of requirements, while Ceragon also lacked schedule of requirement and certificate of reciprocity for a foreign consortium to qualify for the bid.
The four other companies which purchased bidding documents but did not participate in the bidding were Stradcom Corp., which is the current system provider of the LTO IT system, Smartmatic, Oberthur Technologies and Indra Sistemas, S.A.
DOTC/LTO is now set to go through the bid evaluation and post-qualification process, including resolving the remaining issues with the non-complying bidders and other technical/administrative matters.
Transport Secretary Joseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya said the new IT system would provide a viable and long-term solution to address the current system’s issues. The previous LTO IT system, which has been running for 13 years, is no longer responsive to current land transportation regulation requirements.
Once the new LTO-IT system is in place, it will make it easier for authorities to recover stolen vehicles, trace smuggled vehicles, prevent double registration and monitor unregistered vehicles.
DOTC/LTO expects that once the
automation systems of LTO and Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) are up and running, the government will be able to eliminate cases of PUVs securing an LTFRB franchise without LTO registration, as well as PUVs that are registered with the LTO but have no LTFRB franchise. - source: PNA
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