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Compete for implementing the electronic alarm sys
Category	News	Date	2007.06.01	View	11278
[Press Release] Competition to win the project for implementing the electronic alarm systems for correctional institutions - As a priority negotiating partner in phase 3 GS Neotek consortium won the phase-3 project for implementation of the Ministry of Justice’s correctional institution electronic alarm systems, which created a controversy over the sensor technology. On May 31, the Public Procurement Service announced the result of the bidding for the phase-3 project for the implementation of the “Ministry of Justice’s correctional institution electronic alarm systems” worth KRW18 billion. The GS Neotek-CAPS-Korea Veterans Association consortium was named the priority negotiating partner. This project is to implement electronic alarm systems for the day-time and night-time by installing basic systems, such as surveillance systems and emergency Tx/Rx systems, in 22 correctional institutions across the country, including the Seoul Correctional Service, by the end of this year. In this bidding the KEPCO-KDN consortium, which carried out the phase-1 project, and the Samsung SDS, SK C&C consortium, now executing the phase-2 project, competed against one another. The GS Neotek consortium proposed FD220, the optical-cable surveillance system of US-based FiberSensys, and offered the bid price of KRW14 billion, and was named the priority negotiating partner over the other competitors. Samsung SDS did not designate any system for the sensing technology, and proposed the optical-cable method of FiberSensys. It tried everything it could to win the project, but to no avail. "FiberSensys’ FD220 are installed at certain sites, and it is a product with a proven track record," said a GS Neotek official. "We could land on the project because we offered a reasonable price." "The evaluation committee members reviewed the technologies," said an official of the Public Procurement Service. "The price difference between the winner and the runner-up was as much as KRW3 billion. So the price factor had a great influence on the selection." This project created controversies over the sensor technology, e.g. the magnetic method and optical cable method, and disputes about support for certain vendors.