COMELEC Press Releases

2010 NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS

AUTOMATION TIMELINES

As of 24 July 2009




ACTIVITY START FINISH
1. Publication of Invitation to Bid 03.16.09
2. Issuance of Invitation/ Request for Proposal 03.18.09
3. Pre-bid conference 03.27.09
4. Submission and opening of bids 05.04.09
5. End-to-end demonstration and Systems Evaluation 05.27.09 05.29.09
6. Bid Evaluation and Post-qualification 05.07.09 05.31.09
7. Issue Notice of Award 06.10.09
8. Contract preparation 06.10.09 07.10.09
9. Approval of contract and signing 07.13.09
10. Issue Notice to Proceed 07.14.09
11. Customization of systems / systems development 06.26.09 11.11.09
12. Project Initialization, Set up Project Management Team (PMT) and Project Systems including delivery of all SW licenses and firmware 07.31.09 07.31.09
13. Delivery of 20 units for customization and kick-off of SW customization 08.01.09 08.31.09
14. Delivery of functional system and software agreement 09.01.09 11.30.09
15. Delivery of EMS, CCS (HW, SW and website) 09.30.09 11.30.09
16. Report of Transmission and Logistics 10.31.09 10.31.09
17. Complete system including customization 10.31.09 11.30.09
18. Testing of systems/application software 11.12.09 12.12.09
19. Field test 1 (internal for COMELEC), Mock election, TEC systems certification and COMELEC Training 11.28.09 12.31.09
       19.1 Field test 1 11.28.09
       19.2 Mock Election 12.13.09
       19.3 Train COMELEC executives 12.01.09 12.01.09
       19.4 Train COMELEC technical personnel 12.01.09 12.11.09
       19.5 Train Trainors 12.07.09 12.09.09
20. Train COMELEC field personnel on operation (with information technology-capable person) 12.15.09 02.13.10
21. Field test 2, if needed 12.05.09
22. COMELEC Systems Acceptance 12.12.09 12.13.09
23. Delivery of PCOS machines (Nov-12K, Dec-30K) 11.01.09 12.31.09
24. Testing and acceptance of machines 11.12.09 02.18.10
25. TEC Systems Certification 12.18.09 12.18.09
26. Conduct public demonstration using machines 12.16.09 05.01.10
27. Creation of machine configuration, ballot face, etc 12.07.09 03.15.10
28. Commencement of ballot production 01.01.10 01.31.09
29. Print ballots 01.07.10 04.18.10
30. Second delivery of PCOS machines (Jan - 30K; Feb - 10.2K) 01.01.10 02.28.10
31. Setting of Configuration of machines 01.07.10 04.18.10
32. Testing of machines in their actual configuration with the ballots 01.14.10 04.21.10
33. Deployment of machines/transmission equipment 03.02.10 04.25.10
34. Prepare transmission sites 03.02.10 04.25.10
35. Training of operators/DOST certification 01.20.10 04.30.10
36. Prepare voting/counting/canvassing sites 03.02.10 04.25.10
37. Delivery of ballots 03.10.10 03.31.10
38. Final checking, demos, and sealing of machines 05.02.10 05.06.10
39. Ship ballots 04.22.10 05.08.10
40. Election Day services and completion report and final acceptance in lieu of retention of warranty security 05.07.10 05.17.10
41. Count precinct & proclaim city/municipal winners 05.10.10 05.11.10
42. Canvass results & proclaim winners 05.12.10 05.13.10

Posted:09.10.09 SMBR