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 Argentinean Juan Siegrist (4%).
Jose A. Lisac Velez appears in the Internet for his ties with GSI International, the Panamanian company that is a long-time supplier for government solutions in the Dominican Republic,
Veridos GmbH is listed as the technical solution provider for the Emdoc bid. Veridos GmbH is a world-leading provider of integrated identity solutions. Governments and public authorities in more than 100 countries have trusted the company’s uniquely comprehensive product portfolio that includes identity management systems, driver’s licenses, passports and others. Veridos is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
It would be interesting to check the pricing of a similar solution in another country implemented by Veridos. The media has yet to detail what the country would get for the RD$6 billion tag announced by the Central Electoral Board.
The new Dominican ID is about more than issuing a new card. The project encompasses a major purge of almost 3 million individuals whose current ID cards present irregularities. The JCE has spent two years socializing this situation and the impact of the needed corrections on the lives of millions who have the irregularly-issued cards and their family members.
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14 August 2025