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Singapore-based electronics maker PCI has won a bid to supply 300,000 dongles for a government project that could eventually see everyone in the city-state given the wearable device to help identify people who have interacted with Covid-19 carriers.
The $6 million tender, equivalent to $20 a unit for the bluetooth-enabled TraceTogether Tokens, was awarded by Singapore’s Government Technology Agency (GovTech) to the firm on May 14, according to a government notice.
The pilot project comes after an earlier smartphone-based contact tracing app had limited take-up as it did not work efficiently on some devices.
“GovTech has contracted PCI to manufacture an initial batch of TraceTogether Tokens,” the agency said in an email to Reuters, adding it will tender for the design, manufacturing and delivery of further batches.
PCI Private Ltd, which started as a Silicon Valley circuit board manufacturer in 1972 and was bought by American private equity firm Platinum Equity for $265 million last year, declined to comment on the tender.
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