MANILA, Philippine: HE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has declared a "failure of bidding" in the procurement process of its P465.8 million Online Voting and Counting System (OVCS) which will be used for the first ever online voting of overseas Filipinos in the upcoming 2025 midterm polls.

"It's a failed bidding," said Chairman George Erwin Garcia on Thursday after the Comelec Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) issued a "notice of ineligibility" for the two participating bidders.

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