Component 1-C
Consolidation/Canvassing System (CCS)

1. The consolidation/canvassing system (CCS) shall be secure, fast, accurate, reliable and auditable, and able to:
1. Monitor, detect, record and secure itself against intrusion and/or unauthorized access and recognize its authorized users with the use of physical security devices, such as USB flash drives or PCMCIA cards, with digital certificates, aside from the use of user IDs and passwords;
2. Use the electronically transmitted results or the results as contained in the backup data storage device as input for processing;
3. Decrypt and authenticate the transmitted encrypted election results prior to consolidation/canvassing;
4. Detect previously-loaded election results and prevent these from being input again into the system;
5. Restart and resume the operation without any loss of data in the event of an abnormal termination of the system;
6. Provide real-time updates broken down by voting jurisdictions on:
1. Number of precincts, cities/municipalities and provinces reported against total number of precincts, cities/municipalities and provinces and percentage thereof;
2. Number of registered voters represented in precincts, cities/municipalities and provinces received against total number of registered voters, and percentage thereof;
3. Number of voters who actually voted in precincts, cities/municipalities and provinces received against total number of registered voters, and percentage thereof;
4. Number of votes obtained by each candidate for all positions.
7. Make use of a graphical user interface, including, but not limited to, the use of screen prompts, error messages and help screens;
8. Consolidate/canvass and generate reports:
1. for the city/municipal BOC, using precinct results;
2. for provincial/district BOC, using consolidated city/municipal results;
3. for COMELEC sitting as the national BOC for Senators/Party-list, using consolidated provincial/city results;
4. for Congress sitting as the national BOC for President/Vice-President, using consolidated provincial/city results.
9. Allow election results to be received for consolidation/canvassing only after the vote counters have been initially zeroed out and an initialization report has been printed;
10. Allow the BOCs to end the actual consolidation/canvassing process for each canvassing level and generate final canvassing results only when all expected results have come in and when the previous canvassing level has already been completed;
11. Accurately consolidate results from all expected precincts / cities / municipalities / provinces according to the different jurisdictions of each BOC;
12. Allow the BOCs to digitally sign all electronic results and reports before transmission;
13. Encrypt the digitally signed results and transmit the same to the next upper level of canvassing and to the central server;
14. Generate and print the following, using 8-ply TSF,  in a format to be specified by COMELEC:
1. Initialization Report prior to the conduct of the actual canvass operation showing that no vote has been credited in favor of any candidate;
2. COC with supporting SOV, and COCP when applicable;
3. Immutable audit log report; and
4. Statistical report;
15. Reconfigurable for use in other electoral exercises by the COMELEC;
16. Provide for a public website for real-time publication of canvassing results based on the electronically transmitted precinct results, including services for web design, development and hosting;
2. The system shall include a secure redundant/back-up site, which shall be at least 10 km from the main site, or an equivalent contingency plan subject to approval by COMELEC.
3. All related requirements by the system which are needed to make it fully operational during the entire duration of the project shall be included in the proposal/offer, such as but not limited to required software, servers, canvassing units, other related hardware, back-up power supply, external data storage devices and other supplies, printers and other equipment, services, and consumables.
1. The bidder shall include in its offer the hardware and software for the consolidation server that shall be able to accommodate all the requirements of the COMELEC as specified in this RFP.
2. The bidder shall propose the hardware needed for the canvassing units by the BOCs.
1. All hardware shall have 3 years warranty (parts and service), if purchased.
3. The minimum specifications for the dot-matrix printer to be used by the canvassing units for the BOCs shall be:
1. 500 cps high speed draft;
2. 8-ply TSF paper handling;
3. Automatic paper forms handling;
4. Standard parallel interface connectivity;
5. 9 pins printhead;
6. 136 columns;
7. 128 KB memory;
8. 200 million characters printhead life;
9. 4 million characters ribbon life;
10. 20,000 hours MTBF;
11. 3 years warranty (parts and service) , if purchased;
4. UPS:
1. 650 VA output power capacity;
2. 15 minutes typical backup time at half load;
3. 3 years warranty (parts and service) , if purchased;
4. The system shall be customizable in accordance with the requirements of this RFP.
5. The design and functionality of the system shall still be subject to final customization requirements by the COMELEC.
   
   

COMPONENT 2
PROVISION FOR ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION
USING PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS

1. The service shall provide all the transmission requirements of the system.
2. The service shall have a designed availability of >99%.
3. The service shall be available from 3:00 PM on Election Day to 3:00 PM the following day or until all election results have been transmitted.
4. The service shall cover 100% of all clustered precincts covered by this RFP.
5. The service may utilize wireless, wired or satellite-based connection, or a combination thereof.
6. All related requirements by the service which are needed to make it fully operational for the duration of the project shall be included in the proposal/offer, including the software and hardware.