With all bidders backing out of the project because of low budget allocation, the special bids and awards committee of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday declared a failure of bidding for the contract to refurbish 81,000 vote-counting machines for next year’s elections.

The bids committee, headed by Jubil Surmieda, came up with the decision to declare a failure of bidding after two of the three supposed bidders, Smartmatic-Total Information Management and Vertex Business Application, withdrew from the proceedings, while the third one, Indra Sistemas, did not show up.

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