Originally Posted by
frenchlion
Evening Roma...before I retired I used to work for Gemalto...the company that won the passport tender. There will be two production possibilities, either they will be produced in their specialised ID production site in Finland or they will be subcontracted out to the French national printing company. Whatever solution that will be chosen, given the labour costs I can confirm that they will not be cheap to produce. Gemalto are not in business to lose money...believe me, far from it...so their tender was certainly fair. How they can be 100 million cheaper than De la Rue is unreal. I don’t know if DLR have previously been put to tender by the UK government as they were the only supplier since passports were first issued and they probably thought is was a forgone conclusion but seemingly they seriously plucked up! Today it is estimated that half of the world’s population....that’s a lot of people....use daily a Gemalto product...Bank cards,Sim cards,passports,drivers licence,pay tv,security badges etc etc.
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