DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Central Electoral Board (JCE) says it is just waiting to open the envelope with the Emdoc consortium proposal to award the contract for new IDs in the Dominican Republic. The bidders are associated with Veridos GmbH, the German company that has been in charge of the cards for six million IDs in Haiti from 2019 to 2025.

An editorial in Diario Libre is questioning that the new Dominican ID is costing RD$6 billion (around US$100 million), when in 2014 the IDs for Dominicans had cost US$17 million.

Diario Libre reports that Emdoc is a consortium led by the Panamanian company GSI International Inc, represented in the Dominican Republic by Bernardo A. Perez Diaz. Perez Diaz appears in Linkedin as COO Grupo Upax / Amazon Web Services Admin. The company shareholders are Panamanian Jose Alberto Lisac Velez (50%), Juan J. Borja Papini (46%) and...