Comelec to buy cheaper secrecy folders
MANILA, Philippines - After getting flak for attempting to purchase expensive ballot secrecy folders in the 2010 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is now going to buy cheaper folders for May elections.
The Comelec’s Bids and Awards Committee is bidding out a contract for the supply of more than one million ballot secrecy folders at P35.33 each.
During the 2010 polls, the Comelec was strongly hit for awarding a contract for the supply P690-million folders to One Time Carbon (OTC) Paper Supply Inc., with each folder costing P380.
Because of this, the poll body was forced to cancel the contract with OTC and instead bought ordinary folders.
For the May elections, the Comelec would be buying 1,082,400 pieces of folders for P38.24 million. This is part of the P127.4-million contract that the agency is bidding out this month.
The contract covers other items like bond paper, compact discs, correction tapes, expanding envelopes, notebooks, ballpens, correction fluid, paper clips, packaging tape, cargo stickers, plastic acetates, staple wires, zip locks, yellow pad papers, punchers, and cutters.
Interested bidders may submit bids on Jan. 10 at the Comelec main office in Palacio del Governador, Intramuros, Manila.
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