{"id":44238,"date":"2015-03-06T23:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44238"},"modified":"2015-03-06T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:20:29","slug":"comelec-public-bidding-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/06\/comelec-public-bidding-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec public bidding fails"},"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 &#8212; The Commission on Elections declared a failure in the public bidding for the election results transmission services in the 2016 presidential polls.<\/p>\n<p>No bid proposal was submitted for the first competitive bidding for the provision of electronic results transmission solutions, management and services amounting to P558 million.<\/p>\n<p>Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) Corp, has earlier expressed intention to join the bidding by buying the bid document.<\/p>\n<p>The company, however, wrote BAC the other day it will no longer be joining the biddng<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, recent developments regarding the PCOS bidding have created no small amount of uncertainty over the final number of voting machines to be used in 2016,\u201d\u00a0Smartmatic-TIM president for Asia Pacific Cesar Flores said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot having this figure on hand, we were not in a position to come up with a reasonable proposal for the transmission project and thus have communicated to Comelec our intention not to participate in the tender.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections declared a failure in the public bidding for the election results transmission services in &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-44238","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\/44238","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=44238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238\/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=44238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}