The Independent Electoral Commission has abandoned its plan of having ESI supply the commission with electoral materials for the December poll after four companies finally took part in a bidding exercise.
Sources told The Fatu Network four companies including IEC’s favoured company ESI competed for the multi-million dollars contract on Monday. ESI’s bid price was the most expensive standing at $2,995,000.
The other three companies who bidded are Ekemp Int Ltd, Smart Business Group and Dermalog who are all cheaper.
The IEC at the start of January delayed voter registration after the ministry of finance refused to give the commission money. GPPA advised the ministry not to do so because the IEC did not tender the contract.
The Fatu Network has now learnt a bidding exercise finally took place on Monday and the IEC is now locked in an evaluation of the bids which it must complete by midnight.
The communication officer at IEC Joe Colley did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
