The Commission on Election’s special committee will now have to spare time to hear pending motions for reconsideration from previous disqualified bidders, despite the emergence of a supplier with the lowest bid.
The Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) found the Smartmatic-Total Information Management consortium’s bid compliant with the commission’s requirements after the committee completed the evaluation of the remaining financial bids.
Smartmatic made a Php 7.2 Billion bid for the automation of the 2010 polls which covers 82,200 automated counting machines. Its close competition, Indra Sistemas, was disqualified because its Php 11-Billion offer is limited to 52,000 machines units. (PIA-MMIO)
