Wednesday, May 2, 2007

"IT firm says DFA petition over P1.1B passport project 'misleading'" By Rainier Allan Ronda; The Philippine Star;03/23/2007

4 comments:

archiebald m. said...

THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS ISSUE. LET THE FILIPINO PEOPLE BE AWARE OF THE FACTS AND THE REAL DEAL ABOUT THE SCRAPPED PASSPORT PROJECT UNDER THE B.O.T. CONTRACT AND WHAT THE DFA REPLACED IT WITH.

kim daigo said...

is the machine readable passport and the e-passport different from each other?

Unknown said...

May nagawa na palang 4 stages/phases ang proponent. at gumastos na. bakt naman pinahinto pa ng DFA at hindi na lang binigyan ng karagdagang palugit para makapagbigay ng patunay na may pondo nga sila. gumastos na ng ilang milyon tapos ihihinto lang. parang may "something fishy going on" talaga ha. dapat malaman ito ng publiko.

Dominico Lipolico, Jr. said...

I don’t think the DFA will cancel the contract with the BCA if there were no legal grounds. Besides the matter about Philippine passport is very important as this is a piece of document not only meant to facilitate travel overseas, but also serves as a primary identification card in the Philippines. Perhaps, the Proponent, in the course of implementing the initial stages of the project, ran out of enough funds to cover the project. I don’t think the DFA would just hostage the project in midstream. There must be correspondence from the DFA asking the BCA to present additional proof of funds. BCA must have been given extensions of time to provide additional proof of financial capacity. Maybe the advice sent by the BCA as stated in the complaint letter filed by CGP, came in a little too little too late that there was no recourse but to terminate the agreement and the agency had to scout for a new supplier to continue the project.