Germans win P120 million e-passport tender

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A multimillion tender for the production of a more secure Botswana passport and a new border control system has finally been awarded to a German company. The controversial tender was first awarded in 2003 to Itseng, a son of cabinet minister Daniel Kwelagobe for P40 million.

But one of the companies, which lost the bid, AST Botswana, successfully challenged the award in 2005 at the High Court. The company had bid for P76 million. But since 2003, the cost of the project has escalated and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPDAB) awarded the job this week to a German company Giesecke and Devrient (G&D) for about P120 million.

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