Joint venture ng MIRU Systems, lusot na sa unang hakbang ng procurement ng 2025 automated elections
Joint venture ng MIRU Systems, lusot na sa unang hakbang ng procurement ng 2025 automated elections
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 The second round of bidding for the bidding system that will be used in the 2025 full automated elections was held today.
00:08 Here's Luisa Erispe's report.
00:10 After leaving the first bidding last year, the joint venture of Miru Systems Company Limited, which has already entered the first stage of the procurement process of the 2025 automated elections,
00:24 even though the Korean firm is still a loan bidder like the first round, in the second round, they went through the process of procurement.
00:32 Here, they already passed the technical, legal, and financial aspects that COMELEC is looking for.
00:38 Next, we will give him a notice of post-qualification evaluation where the SBACAT of TWG will start evaluating
00:46 which all the documents submitted earlier according to section 34 of Republic Act 918 or the obligation and work of SBACAT of TWG were seen.
00:56 Are all the documents submitted by the permits true? Is it true that it was validly issued?
01:01 In the financial aspect, the bid of Miru is more than P17.988 billion pesos.
01:07 It is lower by almost P900 million compared to the budget of COMELEC in the procurement.
01:13 It will be able to meet the voting counting machines, system that will be used, ballot boxes, and others.
01:20 COMELEC said that if Miru wins the bidding of P900 million, it will go to the savings of the commission.
01:27 It can also be used in voters' education because all systems are possible to be changed because a new company will be used and not the Smartmatic.
01:37 Smartmatic is continuously asking for clarification on why they did not accept the requirements even though they were disqualified last year.
01:47 Similar to the first bidding sir, if we may request a certification or perhaps a copy of the transcript containing the report of the SBAC AES Secretariat
02:03 reporting on the fact that our client, the JB of Smartmatic attempted to submit its bid earlier this morning but it was refused.
02:14 Smartmatic bought the bid documents but earlier this morning, they have a representative who will submit their bid tender.
02:23 Pursuant again to the decision of the Commission and Bank on the election matter, the Secretariat did not accept their bid tender.
02:30 Meanwhile, even though Miru has already won the first half of the process, they will still go through validation within 7 to 30 days before they can get the contract.
02:40 COMELEC said that they are still on track and not yet on time for the preparation of the 2025 midterm elections.
02:48 We are confident in the timelines. We are not yet on time and we still have one year to produce, to customize, to test, to evaluate.
02:55 And most importantly, we said that after all of this, we will all do local source code review, we will all do end-to-end testing and most importantly, the international certification.
03:06 Luisa Erispe, Para sa Bayan.