Annual Report 2022 23 ABOUT US LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVE SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Other Information Management Discussion & Analysis On a more positive note, we saw significant pent-up demand for passports as we progressed further into the second half of our FY2022, in tandem with the relaxation of international travel restrictions. Previously, the deliveries of passports were at a much slower rate, as there was no urgency for renewal of passports due to international border restrictions. In the financial year under review, Datasonic completed the delivery of several e-gate projects. We had in March 2021 completed the deployment of 16 e-gates with our own in-house developed facial recognition system to Immigration Department of Malaysia at the Malaysia-Singapore entry/exit points, which is part of the Malaysia Automatic Clearance System (“MACS”) project. Subsequently, Datasonic received a contract extension for the supply of additional six (6) units of e-gates for the MACS project, which was successfully completed by our core R&D, technical and engineering team in November 2021. Following the successful delivery of the abovementioned projects, we have further received a Figure 1: E-gates with facial recognition system at Malaysia-Singapore entry/exit points at Bangunan Sultan Iskandar 1-year contract for the expansion of MACS under the MACS Xp project with additional 20 units of e-gates to be installed at the Immigration Office of Bangunan Sultan Iskandar, Johor. Over at the Custom, Immigration and Quarantine (“CIQ”) Complex at Desaru, Johor, we have also completed the deployment of additional four (4) lanes of our new generation of bidirectional e-gates with facial recognition system in FY2022. Apart from the aforementioned contract, Datasonic has also secured several other projects in FY2022. In June 2021, we clinched a RM39.8 million contract for the comprehensive technical and maintenance services of MyKad’s card personalisation centres at the National Registration Department for a duration of 24 months. More importantly, Datasonic had in November 2021, secured letters of extensions from the Ministry of Home Affairs for the supply of the Malaysian Passport Chips, Passport Documents and Polycarbonate Biodata Pages for a period of 24 months commencing from 1 December 2021 to 30 November 2023. The remaining value of the contract is approximately RM280.0 million at the point of announcement.
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