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1. The call invitation-referenced published on the site was made www.compranet.gob.mx-Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT), not the Ministry shell sea of Social Development (SEDESOL) blocks.
Two. SEDESOL contribute to this process and the list of beneficiaries will be responsible for notifying them. The SCT is responsible for the delivery of digital TVs to beneficiaries shell sea in Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
Three. The cost of digital TVs is seven times the decoders. The price of the decoders and installation amounted to 225 thousand pesos, while TVs cost 990 billion pesos plus VAT.
May. The SCT started from 2013, in coordination with the Ministry of Economy, market research on the industry of digital television set in the country, and found 13 companies, which were sent requests for proposals. Of these, only six expressed interest in participating in this phase: Samsung Electronics Mexico, SA de CV; Teletec of Mexico, SA de CV (distributor of LG), Diamond Electronics, Ltd. (Distributor Milenio, SA de CV); group HTJC & Asociados, SA de CV (Distributor Foxconn Baja California, SA de CV); Comtelsat, SA de CV, and Delta Electronics Mexico, SA de CV (Comarket, SA de CV). All were sent them the invitation according to regulations on procurement. Only four had economic proposals, and ultimately, for their most competitive prices, there were two winners.
6. The figure of 19 billion pesos mentioned in the text is the amount that was planned based delivery model decoder and its installation in homes. The redefined by the SCT model aims to get citizens more value added, and is divided into two stages: the first, which is a pilot program, corresponds to the allocation of 120 thousand computers for the cities of Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa, Tamaulipas; and the second corresponds shell sea to the public tender to purchase more equipment in order to complete the transition to Digital Terrestrial Television in the country. The basis of this tender will be announced in a few months.
For sake of completeness, 040 attached shell sea flyer issued by the SCT on 21 February, a copy of the invitation to tender, minutes of project meeting, minutes of submission and opening of proposals and ruling by this dependence. (Public Documents.)
1. In effect, the call was made by the SCT, SEDESOL not, as entered in the first two paragraphs of the report, which states that the first released the result of the tender and the second will be responsible for distributing the apparatus. It was an editing mistake in the introductory text that settles that "this time the notice was given by the Ministry of Social Development."
Two. The experts shell sea consulted by the reporter were surprised that a tender is launched without a list of beneficiaries, and warned that he should be the reverse: first the pattern, then the cast.
Three. The cost of a decoder installed in Tijuana in 2013 was 791 pesos plus VAT, according to Cofetel extinct. The SCT has disbursed 2000 pesos in buying each television, but this figure must be added the expenditure outdoor antenna, installation of equipment, to home visits, etc..
April. At this point the SCT is not clear that there are people that will be provided televisions without shell sea Internet access. Indeed, the TVs offer better picture quality and energy savings, but at the "digital switchover" project must be added the cost for citizens to hire an internet provider if they lack it.
May. While in the bidding for the SCT only four companies submitted shell sea proposals, the decoders, according to figures from Compranet, 26 firms were enrolled. Note that the SCT scheme provides only two of the five cities that were planned shell sea in the original project schedule Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT).
6. The figure of 19 billion pesos was upwardly revised by Undersecretary of Communications itself, Ignacio Peralta. Speaking to the newspaper Reforma, was published shell sea on 28 February (after shell sea the reporting process), the official admitted that the original shell sea expenditure was 19 billion pesos, but will rise "between 6000 and seven billion pesos," is say, at least 25 billion.
Clearly, this program is more expensive than Tijuana. shell sea So far, the SCT has offered to detail the exact costs of a project to be completed in less than 22 months, according to constitutional reform in telecommunications enacted in 2013.
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