Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops
When COVID-19 closed schools in The Philippines, the nation’s government acted to ensure its teachers had the kit they needed to keep working by allocating funds to acquire nearly 70,000 laptops.
The laptops have long since arrived but their purchase has now become a political scandal as it has emerged that the nation significantly overpaid for the kit it procured, and was able to acquire fewer machines as a result.that the Department of Education allocated P35,046.50 to each laptop, but agreed to pay P58,300 apiece despite one bidder offering a lower price of P43,000 .
The auditor also noted that in 2020 the Department of Education paid $581 apiece for Dell machines running an 8th-gen Core i5. The audit office also did a little price comparison and found Dell currently offers a machine far better than the Celerons at less than half the price paid by the Department of Education.
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