Dear All:
One hopes that a "narrative" like this will LATER on be put out in connection with this Printing fiasco.
In the time being, let us focus on getting the next two Saturdays and one Tuesday right....biko nu!
Bolaji Aluko
Waiting With bated breath
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INEC Narrative Series: An Account of the Acquisition of the Direct Data Capture Machines
November 20th 2010
Preamble
This is a summary of activities leading to the
acquisition of one hundred and thirty two thou-
sand (132,000) direct data capture machines, and
presents the state of play as of December 8, 2010.
The efforts to ensure a safe, timely acquisition have
been intense and fraught with challenges, many of
which have been overcome in innovative ways. This
document captures lessons learnt, provides insight
into challenges encountered and presents some of
the solutions developed.
This document is put in the public domain on
the premise that "the only thing secret about an
election is a voters ballot".....
It takes 9 months to make a baby: Some
things just cannot be speeded up, no matter
what energy is put into them! There is a finite
amount of manufacturing capacity globally,
and it doesn't matter what you are willing to
pay, it just can't be done. (At one point, our
requirements exceeded the total global supply
of battery powered mobile printers and all the
manufacturing capacity from all suppliers and
all brands for 2 months)..........
.... materials deleted.....
1.1 Timelines
Item..........................................................................Date
New Commission.....................................................30th June
Decision to do new VR..............................................22nd July
Demonstrations........................................................28th - 31st July
Letters of Interest......................................................Week of 22nd August
Specification of Solution............................................17th, August 2010
New RFQ Issued.......................................................29th August 2010
RFQ Responses........................................................1st September 2010
Validation and Scoring................................................7th September 2010
First BPP Submission................................................14th September 2010
1st BPP Letter of No Objection....................................15th September 2010
Haier Printer Query
Haier Arrival in Nigeria
Notification of Award
First Negotiations
Zinox Acquiescence
Letters of Rejection
Second BPP Visit
Revalidation Issue........................................................Monday 4th October 2010
Revalidation Bid Guarantee Extension............................Tuesday 12th October 2010
Closing of Response Receipt.........................................Friday 8th October 2010
Scoring and Shortlisting
Invitation to treat
Second Negotiations
Second BPP Submission..................................................26/10/2010
Second BPP Letter of No Objection...................................27/10/2010
Presidential Anticipatory Approval.......................................29th October 2010
Federal Executive Council Presentation...............................10th November 2010
Letter of Award
Avante Contract Signature
Zinox Contract Signature
Haier Contract Signature......................................................4th Novermber 2010
Zinox Guarantee Presentation
..... materials deleted........
5.3 The Chinese Connection
China is the worlds manufacturer. A preliminary
desk survey, demonstrated that the majority of
suppliers, of whatever brand or nationality, would
manufacture their product in China. In an ef-
fort to reduce intermediation costs and ensure con-
tact directly with manufacturers, the Commission
requested the assistance of its development part-
ners in the identification of appropriate contacts in
China. Contacts were provided as follows:
1. Lenovo
2. Beijing Bohocoming
3. Founder
4. Haier
5. HP
6. Dell
7. Philisense
8. Muzegroup
Initial contacts were established with these firms
in an attempt to understand their capabilities. En-
quiries yielded the following results:
1. Lenovo, HP and Dell: Had global operations
and suggested a further contact with the Africa
team.
2. Haier: Initiated direct contact and provided
extremely useful information on the procure-
ment process
3. Founder: Failed to respond to initial enquiries,
possibly driven by the fact that the query orig-
inated in Nigeria.
4. Bohocoming: Failed to understand the nature
of the Commissions enquiry and provided an
inappropriate response.
Requests for Quote
After detailed analysis an RFQ (Appendix B)was
sent out to 40 companies via email. A hybrid
paper/electronic solicitation was implemented and
sent to the following companies (abbreviated names
used):
1. Zinox Technologies (Nigeria) *
2. Omatek Computers (Nigeria) *
3. Beta Computers (Nigeria) *
4. Brian Computers (Nigeria) *
5. HCL (India)
6. Samsung *
7. M2sys
8. Biometrika
9. L1ID
10. Acer *
11. MSI
12. SecuGen Corporation
13. Lenovo *
14. Haier *
15. Founder
16. Dell
17. HP *
18. Philisense
19. Avante Technologies *
20. RILEEN Innovative Technologies, Inc.
21. Sonda-tech
22. CDVI
23. Crossmatch
24. Dermalog *
25. Syscan-ID
26. Softechnics
27. Lishen
28. Inovtech
29. Green Bit S.p.A
30. Identification International, Inc
31. Leyio
32. Integrated Biometrics, Inc.
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Ola,
Please don't allow your self to be misled by some ethnic chauvinists. Although I am not holding forte for Jega and INEC, I know alot of Northerners that are qualified for INEC contracts that were disappointed when the DDC machines contracts were awarded to mainly Southerners by the same Jega. If I remember correctly, Zinox Computers alone got more than 50% of all the DDC machines ordered by INEC. This quote is from Thisday Newspaper at the time:
"Nigerian ICT firm Zinox Technology Limited got a total contract of $141,680,000 (N21.25 billion) to supply 80,000 units of laptop computers and other hardware appliances, which include printers, webcams, biometric scanners and back-up batteries, while Avante, an American company, was awarded a $37,013,900 (N5.36 billion) contract for the supply of 22,000 units.
The third company earlier shortlisted to supply the remaining 30,000, Haier Electrical Appliance Technology of China, declined to sign the contract yesterday owing to what sources described as "stringent penalties embedded in the contract terms".
I did not hear anyone talk about the ethnicity of these people then. I do believe all this noise is aimed at distracting INEC and discrediting the officers as well as intimidating them to do the billing of those who fear INEC will not play ball with them in rigging the forth coming elections.
Please focus your energy in encouraging INEC to conduct a free and fair election in the next 3 weeks.
LawalOn Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:46 AM, <OlaKassimMD@aol.com> wrote:
Pastor Joe:
Now I know why it is a do or die affair that the President, Governor, LGA Chair etc. must come froma given Nigerian's neck of the woods!How so naive I have been all along!:)But how come my folks and I got nothing (that we didn't pay for) when OBJ,(Uncle Sege) a fellow Yorubaman was Presi for 8 years?:)The 10 or 15 % premium on contracts is alive and well!One might say it makes the world go round!I also noticed that if you were not born into the same ethnic group asthe power that be it pays to ensure that you are married to the right oneas in the case of the Kalamazoo representative --Dick Jackson, a Nigerian-Britonmarried to a lady from Kano.Oh oh oh Nigeria; what a funny country; so blessed and so doomed due to thegreed of her peoples.Nigeria will be a great nation the moment her citizens start devoting more of theirenergy to the production of wealth rather than to sharing the ever dwindling oilresources from crude oil. Until then she will continue on a downward spiral!What in fact do we do well in Nigeria? Even poor Haiti could conduct successful elections;even Ivory Coast until the loser refused to accept defeat.One thing that we surely do well is this: we know how to make babies even those we cannot afford to lookafter. Could NEPA/PHCN be partly culpable?:)Bye,Ola
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Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Revealed: The INEC Ballot Paper Contractors, Vendors
All these Hashim Dikko, Sanni Lamido Sanni Musa! I thought I will see "Idowubobo", "Opara" and "Usman" in the mix.
Some folks are caterwauling while others are proxies for 13 billion naira contracts. How can a contract issued through proxies be executed? They take their 10% and vamooseNaijaJoe
Revealed: The INEC Ballot Paper Contractors, Vendors
The identities of the six firms and their facilitators contracted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to print ballot papers, result sheets and other sensitive materials for the 2011 general election were Tuesday unravelled by THISDAY.
They were Tip3, a Spanish company represented by Hashim Dikko, and Graphic Inline (Gi) with Sanni Lamido as proxy.
Also on the list were Kalamazoo, represented by Dick Jackson, a Nigerian-Briton married to a lady from Kano; Aero-vote represented by one Yerima; and SanFrano, a German/Polish company represented by Sanni Musa.
The sixth company that benefited from the printing contract was VI Solutions, sponsored by Yahaya Sani.
SanFrano, according to investigation, was the firm that went to China to print the papers but failed to deliver on time for the April 2 elections.
The six contractors received over N13 billion for the printing of the 75 million ballot papers and result sheets for each of the elections. The contracts were awarded to the companies by INEC in late February this year, according to investigation.
Going by the terms of the contract, each of the companies was expected to print 75 million ballot papers and result sheets for the elections in respect of the National Assembly, presidential, governorship and state assembly elections. The number of registered voters is 73 million.
THISDAY gathered that 75 million copies for the main presidential election and another 75 million copies for a run-off, totalling 150 millon were authorised by Jega and awarded to Tip3 Company, the Spanish firm.
It was also leant that the Nigerian partners of Tip3, having assessed the volume of work involved in their contract, made representation to the commission that given the time constraint, they could not guarantee timely delivery of the job, but INEC was said to have urged them on.
THISDAY investigation also showed that the Spanish firm being naïve about the importance of the job, went ahead to print the run-off election papers first and returned the job on the main election to INEC on March 23 with the excuse that it could no longer handle it.
Sources at the commission also revealed that the trio of Jega, his chief of staff, who also doubles as a consultant, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu, and an unnamed senior Presidency official took charge of the award of the contracts for the printing of 200 million copies of the ballot papers and result sheets.
According to the source, INEC in December 2010 set up four committees to traverse the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Lithuania, South Africa, Asia and the United Arab Emirate (UAE) to search for suitable printers.
Jega, as chairman of the committee 'A', visited the United States and Canada, with Prof. Lai Olurode and U.F. Usman as members of his committee.
It was further gathered that Mr. Nuru Yukubu, chairman of committee 'B', visited England and Ireland, with Mrs. G.N. Nwafor, Dr. Oniyangi, Col. M. K Hammanga, D. I. Anumba as members of the committee.
The third committee had Mr. Philip Umeadi, Mrs. T. Iremiren and K.N. Ukeagu as members and visited Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Lithuania, while the fourth committee headed by Dr. Ishmael Igbani visited South Africa, Asia and UAE. Members of the committee included Dr. Chris Iyimoga, Prince Solomon Soyebi and Mrs. Amina Yusuf.
THISDAY gathered that trouble started when the four committees returned from their overseas assessment tour of facilities of printers of security materials and raised another committee headed by the INEC National Commissioner in Charge of Logistics, Col. M. K Hammanga, to harmonise the reports.
The harmonisation committee, in its report, recommended that the ballot papers, result sheets and other sensitive materials be printed in Germany, France and Poland.
The committee also recommended that US should be excluded because of distance, while England was also rejected because of high cost of printing there.
It also rejected South Africa because of the 2007 general election experience which led to the delay, as some of the sensitive election papers were still on ground during the poll.
The Hammanga committee subsequently shortlisted 21 companies and the list was submitted to Jega.
It was discovered that to the utter surprise of the committee members, INEC dumped the shortlisted companies.
"Since then, the issues on the award of the contracts for the printing of the ballot papers, the result sheets and other sensitive election materials was shrouded in secrecy. The files relating to the contracts were always kept in the office of the INEC chairman," the source said.
Graphic Inline, one of the firms that mistakenly went ahead to produce the ballot papers for the re-run elections, told INEC afterwards that its next delivery for the ballot papers would be April 12.
This development, THISDAY learnt, accounted for the firm's failure to meet the deadline and forced INEC to re-award it to another firm, V.I. Solutions.
Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday expressed his continued support and confidence in Jega, saying he was optimistic that he would do a good job and get the desired free and fair elections in the country this time around.
Contrary to speculations that he had lost confidence in Jega, Jonathan said he would have initiated the process for his removal from office if he had the slightest doubt that he was no longer capable of delivering the elections according to the expectations of Nigerians.
He spoke at a photo exhibition by George Esiri, a photo journalist, on his campaign trail titled: "The People's President" at the Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre, Abuja, where he assured Nigerians that there was no cause for alarm as they would not be disappointed.
To him, the decision of the electoral body was the best in the circumstances, adding that if they had gone ahead with the exercise, result sheets would have arrived centres very late at night which would have raised other issues and concerns.
He also asked Nigerians to see the postponement as a demonstration that the electoral body wanted to get things done the right way so that it would be obvious to all that the exercise was open and credible.
"You know that of course, if he is no longer performing well, I will communicate to the National Assembly to terminate his appointment. Until I do that, I am fully in his support and I know that he will do well,'' he said.
The president acknowledged that going for the same election at a later date was a sacrifice all Nigerians have to make to sustain democracy in spite of the cost to those who, like him, travelled to exercise their franchise before it was cancelled.
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