Posted on June 27, 2009 by durianpost
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has assured machines to be used to automate the 2010 elections have near-perfect accuracy.
Commissioner Rene Sarmiento told a gathering of councilors in Davao City that the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines have a 99.9995 percent accuracy rate.
Sarmiento was among guest speakers at the Philippine Councilor’s League Meeting held on Friday [...]
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Posted on June 4, 2009 by durianpost
Automated poll contract signing on June 10
No less than Commission on Elections chairman Jose Melo has confirmed that the consortium of Smartmatic/Total Information Management (TIM) is on its way to bagging the P11.2 billion contract that would fully automate the 2010 elections.
Melo said the chances of rejecting Smartmatic/TIM—the lone bidder that remained standing after a month-long bidding [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2009 by durianpost
SBAC recommends award of P11.2 billion contract
The Special Bids and Awards Committee on Tuesday night submitted its recommendation to the Comelec en banc to award the P11.2 billion poll automation contract to the consortium of Smartmatic and Total Information Management (TIM), as the bidding process for the project nears the finish line.
It should be obvious. [...]
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Posted on May 29, 2009 by durianpost
COMELEC TO AWARD P11.2 BILLION AUTOMATED POLL CONTRACT THIS WEEK
The Comelec’s Technical Working Group (TWG) will conduct today its final and last test for the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) poll machines of lone qualifying bidder Smartmatic and Total Information Management.
In addition, the TWG will repeat two of the tests earlier performed due to some [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2009 by durianpost
The Smartmatic/Total Information Management Consortium yesterday hurdled tests for the first 6 of 26 criteria at the Comelec-initiated demonstration of its machines that would handle the full automation of the 2010 elections.
The consortium—the lone qualified bidder which put up a bid of P4 billion lower than the P11.2 billion contract price—will continue to demonstrate its [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2009 by durianpost
The Commission on Elections said the poll body could declare Smartmatic/Total Information Management as the “single complying calculated bid” if no other bidder complied with requirements for the evaluation of their eligibility, technical and financial proposals.
Comelec Advisory Council member and lawyer Ivan Uy made this observation, citing government bidding procedures, as the Comelec Special Bids and Awards Committee [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2009 by durianpost
WINNING BIDDER TO GO THROUGH 26-STEP TECHNICAL EVALUATION
The consortium of Smartmatic and Total Information Management would be asked to demonstrate its capability to manage the 2010 automated polls, as the Commission on Election’s special bids and awards committee (SBAC) Monday night declared that the consortium is the lone complying bidder for the P11.2 billion contract.
The SBAC is [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2009 by durianpost
SMARTMATIC WINS BID
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared last Saturday night that the consortium of Smartmatic and Total Information Management Corp. submitted the lowest bid of PhP7.1 billion for the automation of next year’s unified election.Smartmatic’s bid is PhP4 billion lower than the second lowest bid of PhP11.22 billion offered by the group of Indra [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2009 by durianpost
WAR DRUMS IN MINDANAO STARTING TO BEAT
as Israeli firm is arms length to bagging contract
Peace efforts in Mindanao could be the biggest casualty in the event an Israeli firm and its partners bag the P11 billion bidding for the Comelec automated poll project in 2010.
If this happens blame it on how corruption could compromise [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2009 by durianpost
BIDDING PROCESS BACK TO SQUARE ONE
The Comelec on Thursday night announced it had decided to grant motions for reconsideration of four bidders, whose bid to join bidding for the P1.3 billion 2010 automated poll project had been earlier thrashed.
The poll automation program is right on track,” said the Ferdinand Rafanan, chair of the Comelec Special Bids and Awards [...]
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