The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the South Korean firm Miru Systems are set to sign on Monday the contract for the automation of next year’s midterm local and national elections.
The poll body announced that the signing of the 2025 automated election system (AES) service contract worth P18 billion will be held at the Comelec headquarters in the Palacio del Gobernador in Intramuros, Manila.
Comelec expressed gratitude to the joint venture with Miru Systems Co Ltd, Integrated Computer Systems, St. Timothy Construction Corporation, and Centerpoint Solutions Technologies, Inc. (MIRU-ICS-STCC-CPSTI) for the “seamless negotiations.”
“Comelec expresses its gratitude to the joint venture for having accepted in toto the terms and conditions of the FASTrAC (Full Automation System with Transparency Audit/Count ) contract, interposing no objections to the line-by-line provisions of the contract, and making a steadfast commitment to deliver the best election technology demanded by Comelec for all Filipinos here and abroad,” the poll body said in a news release.
The commission en banc, headed by chairman George Garcia, and Commissioners Socorro Inting, Marlon Casquejo, Aimee Ferolino, Rey Bulay, Ernesto Ferdinand Maceda, Jr. and Nestor Celis will attend the signing.
On Feb. 22, the poll bod declared the joint venture MIRU-ICS-STCC-CPSTI as the “Single Calculated and Responsive Bid” with an offer of P17,98 billion.
The poll body said all legal, technical and financial documents submitted were deemed qualified.