The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has declared a failure of bidding in the refurbishment of the more than 80,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines due to lack of prospective bidders. This, despite the fact that three companies bought the bidding documents for P75,000 namely Smartmatic-TIM Corporation, Vertex Business Applications Inc, and Indra Sistemas for the P2.07 billion project. “The three bought the bid documents […]
