L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] has received two contracts worth over $5.7 million, including a $3.7 award from Panama’s Tribunal Electoral de Panama to upgrade that country’s National ID system which also serves as voter registration system. Under the Panama contract L-1 will deliver DFR 2100 Single Fingerprint Readers, the ABIS System Search Engine for face and fingerprint image searches, and BioTouch 500 and BioLogon Software for administrator authentication. L-1 originally won the contract last fall but the award was protested, recompeted, and won again by the company. Initially the ABIS will be used for fingerprint searches and later the Tribunal Electoral will have the option to also run face matches. The win is the first for L-1’s ABIS solution in Latin America, which the company hopes will lead to market expansion for the system in that region. Moreover, L-1’s solution is such that the Tribunal Electoral will be able to manage and operate the system for day to day use once its people are trained rather than have to rely on company personnel under a longer-term contract, Jim Moar, president of L-1’s Identix unit, tells TR2. That operating model was a discriminator in the competition and will have appeal to other customers who don’t want the expense of a vendor operating the system, he says. Implementation of the solution begins this month and is slated to run through July. L-1 also won a two-year, $2 million contract from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to upgrade its live scan network for fingerprint booking. L-1 will deliver its TouchPrint High Definition 3800 Live Scan with integrated full hand scanner for criminal booking. The contract includes an option to renew for up to three years.
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