2019 Elections: Deferred Call for Tenders to Review the OSP to Achieve Greater Transparency

In parallel, the Secretary of Political Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior, Public Works and Housing, Adrián Pérez, he said that "It is a question of achieving greater transparency" in the offer of the official position for the interim examination, and pointed out that "Before the sheets are made to measure for Indra", the society that has organized the elections monopolistically since 1997.

"I have nothing for or against Indra, what I say, is that the most reasonable is that there is competition." Several companies have come forward and we'll see which of the two will win on the basis of prices, "explained the manager.

Indra, a Spanish company, has been running the elections since 1997 until now, but this year the Official mail He launched the call for bids well in advance, a few weeks before the elections, and decided to "open the game" to all companies for the purpose of "d & # 39; get more transparency "for the whole process.

An official source explained that "What happened is that there is a clause that excludes competitors from Indra", while another source from one of the companies who tried to participate in other offers explained to this agency that "Even a page of the paper said" this is for Indra ".

The official source said that "It does not mean that Indra can not win again, it means we have to try harder with the price".

Last December, Official mail , had introduced a new software to implement a change in the transmission of telegrams during the provisional control, competition which has Smartmatic that, according to the election sources, offered "A third of what Indra has offered".

Now for the March 8th tender call, because of the decision of the Official mail to seek greater competitiveness, the participation of Indrabut also companies like the multinational SmartmaticHeadquartered in London and with experience in five continents, and the MSA national group, with electoral experience in Buenos Aires, Neuquén and Salta, among others.

Regarding the change of date, the sources of the Mail said that "the original was Wednesday, February 20, but that now the presentation of technical offers was submitted for March 8".

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