AOT insists rental fees for full-body scanners are not overcharged

By Thai PBS

 

 

Airports of Thailand Company Limited (AOT) clarified on Thursday (Jan 11) that the full-body scanners that it rented from a private firm since 2011 for use at international airports was not overcharged.

 

The AOT insisted that the rental fee was reasonable taken into consideration the technology used and the machines have been certified by the United States’ Transportation Security Administration.

 

The company issued the above clarification in response to observations posted in the social media that the actual price of each full-body scanner was about 5.6 million baht and the total rental fees, amounting to 35.64 million baht paid by AOT to rent the devices from MIT Solutions Company, the sole distributor in Thailand, for five years were too high.

 

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/aot-insists-rental-fees-full-body-scanners-not-overcharged/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-01-11

Thats a very good return on investment for MIT Solutions Co. less expenses of course .

regards worgeordie

1 hour ago, webfact said:

the full-body scanners that it rented from a private firm since 2011

I've only seen them being installed last year or the year before if I remember correctly?

 

Oh well, never mind. Small detail.

Edited January 11, 20188 yr by lkv

Sounds like corruption that much is sure. Why would the AOT rent and not buy it ? They have money enough, sounds like someone connected making good money. 

 

As for AOT saying that the 5.6 million is not the value it is in Thailand.. it would indeed be more expensive to import one but not that much more expensive. 

Assuming for just one second, that the 19 million price tag quoted by the dubious Govt figures are correct, not the 5.6million independently quoted, the rental at 650,000 per month, meant that after three years, they had more than paid for the units fully already. Now an additional 510,000 per month is being shelled out for their rental, per unit. Being a regular traveler, I would have thought that given this excessive expenses, and the supposed period they have had them, I should probably have actually witnessed them being used at least once somewhere by now!

Does somebody perhaps know any other airport operator in the world that actually rents their scanning equipment for years on end instead of purchasing it? I don't.

 

Sounds like some AOT executive's wife's sister's cousin's uncle has earned quite a bit of dosh (after paying the usual "gratuity fee", of course). 

AoT must be correct, there was no 'overcharging' then... well, as long as it's not exceeding the 30 to 40% 'extra' required in most/all official contracts in the LoS.

The same person also organised the bomb detection units for the airports? 

 

So what are the real costs and who did organise the contract, or signed off on it?

I wonder who the Directors of MIT are............

To be fair maybe those scanners have expensive Roll-Royce Engines to power them.

What could be wrong about that?