A legal hitch as a result of the Smartmatic-Total Information Management Corp. consortium’s existence specifically for the 2010 elections poses as a hurdle for the automated poll system provider in advancing to the next stage of the Commission on Election’s (Comelec) bidding for additional voting machines for use in the 2016 national elections. The bids and awards committee (BAC) of the Commission on Elections was asked last Friday to exclude the Venezuelan firm from the proceedings on grounds of eligibility. Lawyer Archibald Demata, counsel for Indra Sistemas S.A., said the joint venture company was not eligible to bid for having submitted legally infirm qualification documents. “We have filed (a manifestation) before the actual demonstration because we believe that Smartmatic-TIM should not be allowed to proceed in the bidding because of that problem,” Demata said during a break in the BAC proceedings last Friday. Specifically, Demata pointed to Smartmatic’s Articles of Incorporation filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) back in 2009 describing its joint venture (JV) with local partner TIM for the primary purpose of offering its services for the automation of the Philippine national election in 2010. tribune.net.ph/headlines/sec-papers-show-smartmatic-s-life-limited-to-2010-polls
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 06:55:20 +0000
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