THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday signed an P18 billion contract with South Korean firm Miru Systems to lease 110,000 automated counting machines (ACMs) for the 2025 midterm polls despite a pending court case filed by Smartmatic Philippines Inc. questioning its disqualification from all election-related bids and procurement.
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has called for a second bidding for a new fully automated election system technology that it will use in the 2025 national and local elections (NLE) after its first bidding was declared a failure.
CONTROVERSIAL technology provider Smartmatic Philippines Inc. (Smartmatic) on Thursday questioned its disqualification from all procurements of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), saying that the decision was most unfair because it was based on non-existing grounds.
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(UPDATE) THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has disqualified and disallowed technology provider Smartmatic Philippines Inc. from participating in all its public bidding and procurement processes.