The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday welcomed a Supreme Court decision junking a losing bidder’s petition to stop the election body from awarding the compact flash (CF) cards contract to Smartmatic-TIM.
A lawyer on Thursday questioned the confidentiality surrounding the bidding documents for the P5.6-billion modernization of the Philippine Orthopedic Center.
An undisclosed number of contractors and suppliers have been using fake bidding and performance bonds, as well as credit lines from banks, in getting contracts for millions, if not billions, of pesos worth of government infrastructure projects, Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson said on Monday.
Despite the alleged snafus of the 2010 elections, Smartmatic–Total Information Management (TIM) Corp. has won the bidding for a P45.2-million contract to supply compact flash (CF) cards for the May 13 elections.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has opened the public bidding for the procurement of 30,000 new ballot boxes needed for the midterm elections next year.
The Commission on Elections has yet to complete the bidding process for a big bulk of election-related services to be used in the second nationwide automated elections next year. But it remained confident that it will be able to meet all the requirements by next month.
The Commission on Elections is bidding out a P4.4-million project to print six million pages of Election Day Computerized Voters Lists (EDCVL) for the 2013 elections.
he Commission on Elections on Friday distanced itself from the brewing dispute between the National Printing Office and Smartmatic-TIM, a losing bidder for the P780-million contract to print 55 million ballots for the 2013 midterm elections.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has invited bidders to bid for the P291-million official ballot packaging project.
The Department of Public Works and Highways has made good on its promise of “full transparency in operations” with regular updates on government infrastructure projects, as well as public disclosures of project irregularities involving agency personnel.
A lawyer is questioning the government’s move to pay back China’s US$500 million official development assistance (ODA) for the scrapped North Rail project.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has opened bidding for a P17-million contract for consulting firms that will draw up master plans for the development and rehabilitation of four major river basins.
Realizing the work up ahead as the downpour continues to damage roads across the country, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) vowed to bid out all infrastructure projects for 2013 by December so these could be finished before the next round of rains begin next year.
