The Attorney General’s Office has canceled a nearly P38,000-million tender for the procurement of a biometric verification tool for the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), after the Attorney General’s Office issued alerts about possible irregularities in the process.
The resolution formalizing the decision was signed by Alejandro Geraldo Lopez, Executive Director of the entity, and was published in Secop on Friday, November 7 at 4:40 p.m.
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The bidding process, aimed at modernizing CTI’s biometric identification systems, has been under the supervision of the Attorney General’s Office since its early stages.
Márcio Melgosa, Senior Managing Attorney for Preventive Oversight of the Public Service, warned against this Changing the date of the sentencing hearing could have violated rules established to regulate selection processes.
Moreover, Melgosa pointed out the time Which The final specifications omitted key indicators such as the financial capacity of the project proponents and that some of the graphs provided by the Attorney General’s Office lacked clarity.This prevented the knowledge of the data used to determine the conditions of the operation.
The official also questioned the adequacy of the budget analysis carried out by the entity.
The chronology of the process shows this The selection phase closed on 23 September 2025, by which date only two bidders had submitted offers.
Subsequently, after evaluating the feedback received, the Attorney General’s Office issued an addendum on October 20 requesting additional information from the FGN on aspects not indicated in the initial report, granting a response period until October 21, 2025.
He explained in relation to the participants the time The temporary multi-biometric FGN consortium consists of Thales Columbia SA (47%), Sonda de Columbia SA (45%), Thales Dis Brasil Cartões e Soluções de Tecnologia Ltda (4%), and Thales Dis España SA (4%). For its part, the “Idemia Iafis” consortium included Iafis Columbia SAS (30%), Iafis Philippines SA (15%), and Idemia Public Security France SAS (55%).
The decision to declare the tender invalid was made for technical and administrative reasons. The Public Prosecution decided this after analyzing the documents and evaluating the requirementsNone of the proposals submitted met the admissibility criteria specified in this process.
Thus, when consolidating the list of eligible proponents, the Attorney General’s Office concluded that no proposal could advance, resulting in the process of obtaining a biometric instrument for CTI being put on hold.
It is important to mention that Deputy Public Prosecutor Márcio Melgosa has previously stated that: “The Office of the Deputy Public Prosecutor urges the entity to suspend the public bidding process until the possible current regulatory violations in the above-mentioned process are analyzed and the scenarios in which the entity would have the possibility to cancel the administrative procedure for opening are analyzed in detail.”
Likewise, the Monitoring Body was able to verify the presence of modifications to the contractual schedule and modifications in the evaluation of the qualifying requirements of one of the bidders, Union Temporal Multibiometric FGN.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Márcio Melgosa added in a statement that “in addition to potentially violating the above-mentioned regulations, the Executive Directorate of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is also likely to violate the principle of legality, according to which all actions of the Department must be based on the law and within the scope permitted by it.”
In this way, the Public Prosecution recommended not only suspending the process, but also analyzing the possibility of resubmitting bids from scratch.
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