Two firms were barred yesterday from bidding for the P11.3-billion contract to automate next year’s elections.
The Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) special bids and awards committee (SBAC) found ineligible the consortium of Indra Sistemas of Spain, Strategic Alliance Holdings Inc. of the Philippines and Hart Intercivic of the United States; and the consortium of Universal Storefront Services of Philippines and Sequoia Voting Systems of United States for failing to meet the bid’s documentary requirements.
Four firms remain eligible to bid for the automation contract.
Lawyer Ferdinand Rafanan, SBAC chairman and Comelec Law Department director, said Indra had failed to submit a certificate from the International Organization for Standardization.
SBAC Resolution No. 002 shows that Hart Intercivic, the consortium’s provider of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines, had failed to submit the ISO certification or its equivalent contrary to Bid Bulletin No. 4, dated April 4, 2009.
The ISO 9000 certificate should be submitted by the provider of component IB PCO, according to the resolution.
The resolution states that ISO certification submitted was that of Integrated Microelectronics Inc.
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