(COMELEC)
Comelec Commissioner Marlon Casquejo said that they “did not choose Smartmatic” to provide the automated system for the 2022 National and Local elections.
“They joined the competitive bidding. It’s beyond our control kung sino mananalo (who will win). It will be the lowest calculated bid,” said Casquejo.
Casquejo said that policies on public bidding were followed.
“We conducted a post qualification, and may observers naman tayo (and there were observers). We just followed what the GPBB (Government Procurement Policy Board) will give us,” he said.
The Comelec has awarded to Smartmatic “the contract for the Procurement of Automated Election System (AES) Software for the Election Management System (EMS), Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) and Consolidation and Canvassing System (CCS) to be used in the 2022 National and Local Elections.”
Published May 11, 2021, 1:29 PM
As the Commission on Audit started releasing audit findings on the disbursement by government response funds to address the devastating effecs of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, state auditors flagged official expenditures of Tuguegarao City using funds released under the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act or Bayanihan 1.
COA noted that aside from the procurement of “relief goods and meals and snacks under emergency cases,” the claims of hotels used as quarantine venues for individuals found positive for COVID-19 and as temporary dormitory for medical personnel and nurses of the Cagayan Valley Medical Center “appeared to be excessive.” The recently-released 2020 Annual Audit Report for Tuguegarao City may have recorded one of the earliest adverse audit findings on the use of government funds in the fight against the adverse effects of the 2019 corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Published May 6, 2021, 9:11 PM
The Commission on Audit (COA) has questioned the Davao City government’s assets amounting to more than P9.48 billion or 40 percent of its total assets recorded as of Dec. 31, 2020 as well as its millions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disbursements last year.
COA (Manila Bulletin File Photo)
Based on the 2020 audit of the Davao City released on Wednesday, May 5, the Davao City’s Property, Plant, and Equipment (PPE) accounts amounting to more than P9.48 billion “cannot be ascertained as to its validity, correctness and existence.”
“Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, there was no CY 2020 RPCPPE (Report on the Physical Count of Property, Plant and Equipment) neither prepared, nor a physical inventory-taking was conducted as required by established rules and regulations, thus the difficulty to apply alternative audit procedures in determining the fairness of presentation of such PPE accounts in the financial statements at year-end,
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