KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has sought details from its field offices so that the bio-metric machines and cameras could be procured at the earliest for installation.
In this regard, the FBR had forwarded a letter to the chief commissioner RTO Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Sukkur and collector of Model Customs Collectorate Preventive Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Multan, Faisalabad and Sambrial seeking details of required machines and cameras.
According to FBR’s letter, a Centralized Procurement Committee has been constituted to procure the bio metric attendance machines for all the field offices of FBR.
“It is therefore requested to kindly furnish the following information in respect of field offices located at stations where the task of procurement and installation of the bio metric machines was assigned to your office as per clause (i) of SOP by November 3, 2015 positively so that procurement process may be initiated. The details sought include number of location, number of bio metric machines required and number of IP cameras required”.
However the task of installation of bio metric machines/camera s through the vendor and other related matters in the SOP will be undertaken monitored by the respective designated field offices and the committees. The matter may be treated as most urgent, the letter added.
