A bidder for the Land Transportation Office’s (LTO) P3.8-billion license plate supply deal on Friday asked the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) to reconsider the firm’s disqualification, saying that taxpayers and motorists stand to recognize significant cost savings in case its proposal is chosen.
Controversial tech firm Stradcom Corp. has secured an eight-month extension to its information technology (IT) contract with the Land Transportation Office (LTO), following the government’s failure to find a suitable replacement for the company.
The Commission on Audit wants a private contractor disqualified from future biddings of the Land Transportation Office for failure to comply with its contract obligation resulting in the delay in the delivery of motor vehicle license plates last year.
Anecdotal business frustrations aside (unless you’re a chronic bellyacher), there is no denying that 2012 is, to quote the Inquirer’s editorial last Wednesday, “a good year.”
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has auctioned off and awarded the multibillion-peso supply contract for the Land Transportation Office’s (LTO) computer systems to a little-known firm.
Shortly after Virginia P. Torres was appointed by President Benigno C. Aquino III to head the Land Transportation Office (LTO), rumors swirled that she got the plum post because she was one of the shooting buddies (“kabarilan”) of the newly elected President. Political pundits noted that many of the coveted government positions were being given to the President’s three K’s (“kaklase” or classmate, “kabarkada” or gangmate and “kabarilan”).
The government has set aside P111 million to upgrade several Land Transportation Office (LTO) sites across the country in a bid to improve the delivery of services to the public.
As their buses stray from one lane to another, so do drivers’ minds wander from one predicament to the next. And when the brain is overloaded with worries and fantasies, a head-on collision with trouble seems inevitable.
A Quezon City court has issued a temporary restraining order (RTO) to compel the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) to stop its search for a new information technology (IT) systems provider for the Land Transportation Office (LTO).
Taxpayers stand to save billions of pesos in hardware and software startup costs if the government opts to renew the information technology contract between Stradcom Corp., on one hand, and the Land Transportaton Office (LTO) and the Land Transportation Franchise Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on the other.
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) has decided to replace Stradcom Corp. as the information technology (IT) systems provider of the Land Transportation Office once the company’s contract ends next year.
Local technology firm Stradcom Corp. has submitted a proposal to renew its multibillion-peso information technology (IT) contract with the Land Transportation Office (LTO), which expires next year.
