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Bids called for five million e-passports with embedded chips
View(s):The Ministry of Public Security has called for international competitive bidding for the procurement of five million e-passports in keeping with the government’s initiative to introduce electronic chip-embedded digital passports to citizens.
In the bidding brief released this week, the Ministry’s Cabinet-Appointed Procurement Committee (CAPC) said the process would adhere to the international competitive bidding method. In terms of this, the bidder should have a minimum average annual turnover of USD 17 million, calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed within the past three years.
According to the bidding bid documents, the bidder should not have been blacklisted and must demonstrate access to or availability of financial resources to meet the cash flow requirement of not less than USD 1 million.
The new e-passport with an embedded electronic chip will consist of biometric data about passport holders with high-level security layers that can be read only through the chip system.
The ministry also called for another separate international bid recently for another stock of five million reprinted polycarbonate cards for the issuance of National Identity Cards.
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