KPK Admits There Is A Procurement Of Up To Hundreds Of Million Session Recorders

Illustration of sound recorder (Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) confirmed that it was procuring trial recorders. The ceiling value is IDR 331,257,126 and the HPS value is IDR 306,702,653.

"It is true that the procurement is intended to fulfill the human resources record of the trial process of corruption cases at the Corruption Court," said Acting Spokesperson for the KPK for Enforcement, Ali Fikri in a written statement quoted on Saturday, March 5.

Ali said open recording is actually nothing new. He said this had been done since 2009 where the results were used by the KPK Public Prosecutor (JPU) to prepare letters of demand and other required matters.

"The recording product is used, among other things, for the purposes of the KPK JPU team in compiling a letter of demand or other needs related to the handling of cases by the KPK," he said.

Quoted from lpse.kemenkeu.go.id, this tender is called the Procurement of Services for the Placement of Operational Recordings for the 2022 Session. The stage is currently entering the qualification announcement where the date of manufacture is February 25.

In this website, the location of the work is stated at the KPK's Red and White Building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta. The number of participants who participated in this tender reached 17 people.

Participants who participate must comply with administrative or legal qualifications such as having a SIUP business license to a TIN and certainly not being blacklisted. In addition, they must also meet technical qualification requirements such as having work experience to having experts.