The Company had made an announcement on 15 December 2015 for the supply of the Malaysian Passport Chips for a period of five (5) years or 12.5 million of Passport Chips (“Contract”) commencing from 1 December 2016 to 30 November 2021 for a contract sum of RM318,750,000.00.

The Board of Directors of Datasonic wishes to announce that DTSB has on 31 January 2020 received and accepted the Letter of Change of Scope (“LOCS”) dated 23 January 2020 from KDN in respect of the Contract with no change to the contract sum of RM318,750,000.00.

Under the LOCS, the total quantity of Passport Chips to be supplied would be reduced from 12.5 million chips to 11 million chips, amounting to RM280,500,000.00 and a new scope of works would be included for the maintenance services for hardware and software of Autogate and Chips and the maintenance services for equipment and application of Public Key Infrastructure and Public Key Directory, amounting to RM38,250,000.00.

Please refer to the attached file for the details of the announcement.

This announcement is dated 31 January 2020.