Datasonic MD says firm’s ability to secure govt passport chip contract based on merit

Datasonic MD Chew Ben Ben said that there has been a misleading perception as to how the company had secured its passport contract.

PETALING JAYA: Datasonic Group Bhd deputy managing director Chew Ben Ben has clarified that the company’s ability to secure its contract to supply passport chips to the government was based on merit.

He said there has been a misleading perception as to how the company had secured its passport contract valued at RM318.75mil in December 2015, after a report emerged in 2014 about how the company had underperformed in its prior contract of supplying polycarbonate data pages.