The Commission on Elections' special bids and awards committee, or SBAC, has invited prospective bidders to submit their offers for  for the second auction for the lease of Full Automation System with Transparency Audit/Count or FASTrAC for the 2025 midterm elections.

 Aside from private companies, the Comelec anticipates observers from the Commission on Audit Resident Auditor, Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting or PPCRV, National Citizen's Movement for Free Elections or NAMFREL, Legal Network for Truthful Elections or Lente, and the Democracy Watch, and Participate PH to attend the bid.

Meanwhile, election watchdog, Democracy Watch Philippines, which is also invited to attend the bidding, urged the Commission on Elections to review the track record of the primary lone bidder in the procurement of the new automated election system or AES for the 2025 national and local elections.

Democracy Watch warned the Commission on Elections, or Comelec, of the possibility of an election failure in the 2025 midterm polls if the government awards the new electronic voting system contract to South Korean firm Miru Systems Co. Ltd.

and Gilmore LeaÑo