THE Commission on Elections-Bids and Awards Committee (Comelec-BAC) announced on Tuesday that it would be holding a second round of public bidding for the provision of election results transmission services for use in next year’s elections with an approved budget of P558 million.
In its invitation to bid, the Comelec-BAC said the second round of bidding is necessary after the first round was declared a failure since no companies offered their bid proposal for the project.
It can be recalled that Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) Corp. had purchased the bidding documents during the first round but did not submit a bid. The Comelec-BAC has set the deadline for the submission of bids on July 24.
A prebid conference has been scheduled on July 9 at the Comelec main office in Intramuros, Manila.
“A complete set of bidding documents may be purchased by interested bidders who wish to participate in the bidding process until July 24 during weekdays only from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. upon payment of a nonrefundable fee for the bidding documents in the amount of P75,000,” the Comelec-BAC said in a notice. Joel R. San Juan
“Only those interested bidders, who have purchased the bidding documents, are allowed to raise and submit queries or clarifications regarding the bidding documents,” it added.