The Electoral commission (EC) of Ghana has announced a decision to cancel the tender process for the procurement of the Election Results Management System (ERMS) for the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.
A statement issued and signed by Eric Kofi Dzakpasu, Head of Communications at the EC, said: “As part of the procurement process which began from March 2, 2016, two vendors out of three shortlisted companies qualified for technical demonstration and financial evaluation of their bids.”
“After a careful assessment of the technical demonstration and evaluation of the technical and financial proposals, the evaluation panel was not satisfied with any of the tenderers. The panel’s conclusion was influenced by the following: There was observed failure to meet the technical criteria and major deviations from the administrative criteria. There were also concerns about the technical ability of the tenderers to perform the project satisfactorily. The tenders submitted showed the need to significantly revise the scope of the project.
“For the above reasons, the Commission endorsed the unanimous recommendations of the evaluation panel and has decided to discontinue the project. Accordingly, the Commission will augment its internal capacity to deploy a modest results collation and transmission system for election 2016. This system has been utilised successfully in the four parliamentary by-elections conducted by the Commission since July 2015. The system will be fine-tuned and demonstrated to the political parties and other stakeholders involved in the election results collation process before the December 7, 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.”
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