{"id":40748,"date":"2015-02-03T20:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40748"},"modified":"2015-02-03T20:39:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:39:39","slug":"brillantes-signed-p268-8m-deal-with-smartmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/03\/brillantes-signed-p268-8m-deal-with-smartmatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Brillantes signed P268.8M deal with Smartmatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35047\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smartmatic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35047\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smartmatic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Smartmatic PCOS machine (Comrade Mijur \/ Technically Juris on Blogspot)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smartmatic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smartmatic.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smartmatic PCOS machine (Comrade Mijur \/ Technically Juris on Blogspot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Tuesday revealed that he approved the P268.8-million contract with Smartmatic-Total Information Management Corp., three days before he steps down of his position to spite his critics.<\/p>\n<p>The sealed agreement was lower by P31.2 million from the original amount presented by Smartmatic which is P300 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast Jan. 30, I signed the contract with Smartmatic despite all the criticisms. Despite all of the attacks, I still signed the deal with Smartmatic. I did not have to sign it but I signed it,\u201d said Brillantes during his farewell speech.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he is challenging those who are questioning the Comelec for getting the deal with Smartmatic to go to the Supreme Court (SC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contract has not been signed but they kept on attacking us so I signed it. Now, I dare all of them to bring it up to the highest court of this land and I will fight for it up to the end,\u201d Brillantes said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the agency is able to defend every provision in the contract given that the government will benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, acting Comelec chief Christian Robert Lim said that Smartmatic approved the reduced contract price.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this, Smartmatic will also expand their services which will now include major repairs and replacement of destroyed machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got a good deal. It\u2019s more of a win-win for us,\u201d said Lim.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Brillantes and Commissioners Lucenito Tagle and Elias Yusoph retired and left four commissioners to run the agency. This include Lim, Luie Guia, Al Parre\u00f1o and Arthur Lim.<\/p>\n<p>The Palace will still appoint the replacements of the retired officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Tuesday revealed that he approved the P268.8-million contract with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}