Smartmatic bags 6th contract for 2013 polls

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Latest contract involves Smartmatic and venture partner running the call center that will provide technical suppport to Comelec field personnel

SUPPORT CENTER. Call center agents deployed for the 2010 elections. Photo from Comelec-EID
Elections supplier Smartmatic-TIM, whose performance in the country’s first automated polls in 2010 has been heavily criticized by several quarters, has been awarded its sixth supply contract for the 2013 elections. The newest contract will have Smartmatic and its venture partner running the call center that will provide operations and technical support services to field personnel of the Commission on Elections who will be manning the vote counting machines. The contract, awarded on March 2, amounts to P111,555,454. The original budget pegged by Comelec for the project was P131,040,000.


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