Payment platform development for digital wallet scheme scrapped

The Digital Government Development Agency (DGA) has called off its plan to develop a payment platform for the “digital wallet” scheme, after no one expressed interested in bidding bid for the project.

According to the DGA’s press release issued today, it issued a letter of invitation on August 27th to bid for the contract to develop the payment platform for the scheme.

There was previous a report that three companies were interested, but none of them entered the bidding, prompting the DGA’s cancellation of the plan.

The Finance Ministry has already changed the payments to cash, a standard bank transaction, for about 14.2 million disabled and vulnerable Thais, starting on September 25th.

Payments for the remaining 30 million people is likely to be made next year, but it is yet to be concluded whether the full benefit of 10,000 baht will be paid half in cash and half in “digital money”.