Smartmatic has improved its offer and has officially remained faithful to the preliminary examination of the 2019 presidential elections

In the end, and beyond, the official price is scheduled for next week, Smartmatic will be in charge of the provisional examination of election resultsaccording to sources confirmed by Correo Argentino.

This Wednesday, The company, based in London and popularized over the past decade by its participation in the Venezuelan electoral process, improved the offer last Friday by $ 200,000 from $ 17,093,888 to $ 16,899,920.

Scytl, the Catalan company that offered last week $ 17,899,042 and went to a next step to bid – there was no price difference of 10% as stipulated in the specifications – it did not proceeded to a new presentation, which the company was in the hands of Smartmatic.

"Only bureaucratic steps and a formal decision remain", says mail sources, in charge of the submission.

The price, in this sense, confirms that INDRA, who finished third with a bid of $ 19,235,000, although he led the order of merit and technical specifications, will no longer be in charge of the activity.

The Spanish-based multinational, headed in our country by Ricardo Viaggio, former director of SOCMA, a holding company of the Macri family, has monopolized the provisional control system since 1997.. It had 11 elections to its position between the menemismo, the Alliance, the duhaldismo, the Kirchnerismo and the macrismo. In the 2017 elections, the election amount was $ 23 million.

In the last days, INDRA submitted at least two presentations to the authorities of Correo Argentino, considering that the evaluation of the observations made against the other competitors was not taken into account. Even still in the Puerto Madero offices of the company badyze, although less intensely, the presentation of the judicial measures.

The process has been traversed since the summer by a powerful business lobby with government officials and counter-claims.

Smartmatic was already at the end of last year with the call for tenders for the digital transmission of the minutes of the voting minutes: will provide the software for a system that will be used for the first time.