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KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 4): Private IT company Bestinet Sdn Bhd said it had yet to obtain any contract from the government to implement the controversial Foreign Worker Centralised Management System (FWCMS).

"We don't have a contract yet," Bestinet executive chairman Tan Sri Azmi Khalid told a press conference here today.

"I'm not comfortable with the lack of (a) contract, but the government wants proof of concept.

"The officers want to know the way to implement the system,” said Azmi, who is also a former home minister.

“I hope,one day, we can get the contract," he said.

He added it was up to the government to decide how much to pay the company for the system.

He claimed that the end-to-end system would help the government save huge sums in terms of costs including the maintenance of detention centres, repatriation and health treatment for foreign workers.

The patented registered system could also protect the workers from being abused by agents, while employers could get their workers in as short a time as three days.

Additionally, all data in the system are protected.

Azmi explained that Bestinet had presented the proposal to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in 2011 to develop a holistic system that would plug leakages in the existing foreign worker management system.

The idea was well-received by the PM and Bestinet obtained his support to work with the relevant government departments to develop the system, he said.

Azmi also rebutted claims that the system had caused a fee hike in visa application.

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