Unisys bags 11.6-B civil registry PPP

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has awarded the R1.59 billion Civil Registry System - Information Technology Project Phase II to the sole bidder, Unisys Public Sector Services Corporation (Uniysys).

After reviewing and evaluating bidding documents and conducting negotiations under the Build-OperateTransfer (BOT) Law, the government found the corporation compliant with all the technical and financial proposal requirements of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project.

Previously, the state pre-qualified three bidders - Morpho-FilmetricsFrey Consortium, Unisys Public Sector Services Corporation and PNJ Partnership Consortium. However, only Unisys submitted a bid for the project on June 10, this year.

Unisys is now tasked to finance, design, develop, operate and maintain the CRS-ITP2. As the private partner, it will upgrade the current service levels of the PSA in providing the various civil registry documents: birth, marriage, death and no marriage certificates.

Additional forty CRS outlets will be established around the country once the project is completed.

Todate, the PSA has 40 CRS outlets nationwide.

A new building to house the servers of the information technology system will also be constructed. It is estimated to take two years to complete.

Unisys has twenty calendar days from the receipt of the notice of award NOA last Friday, (September 9), to submit the required documents in the Instructions to Bidders (ITB) for the signing of the concession agreement.