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Zimbabwe : Govt. secures $17M for procurement of biometric voter registration kits
Publish Date : 20-Feb-2017
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has announced that the government has now raised $17 million to fund the procurement of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits for the 2018 elections.
The government had committed $17 million while other development partners through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) committed the balance.
The biometric polling station-based voter registration process is supposed to be co-funded by the Zimbabwean government and the UNDP.
Zec chairperson Rita Makarau, said, "I also want to make an announcement at this stage now that the government of Zimbabwe has come on board and has decided that it will fund the acquisition of the BVR kits instead of letting the UNDP do it on its own. It will fund whatever award is given to the bidder; they will fund that acquisition of BVR kits."
Makarau could not be drawn to say why government had taken so much time to come on board.
She said, "I can't speak on behalf of government, you would have to ask them but we are grateful they have come on board as this is a national process and we would have loved that they pay for everything right from the word go."
This has been announced after Zec and UNDP floated a tender in December to invite potential local and global companies to supply the BVR kits. The tender's closing date was 17th January.
Makarau also said that five bidders were shortlisted to supply the kits.
She noted that out of the 12 companies which were assessed, seven of the bids were non-compliant.
She added, "Out of those five bids, three will be selected to then come into the country with their equipment on a selected date and to demonstrate on the ground what their equipment can do. After the site validation tests, we can award the tender to one supplier who will supply us with the BVR kits. The tendering process because we were being financed by the UNDP was done on the UNDP e-Platform which was run from Copenhagen. The bids were opened and we all witnessed the opening of the bids here through technology."
