This project aimed at deploying 400 electronic payment terminals (TPE) operating under the Android system and equipped with integrated transactional applications. The overall financial envelope planned for the acquisition was 140 million CFA francs, including all taxes (TTC), or an average unit cost estimated at 350,000 CFA francs.

The cancellation of the administrative procedure, in accordance with the regulatory provisions of the decree of June 12, 2018, governing public enterprise markets, temporarily interrupts the digitization schedule of post offices. The investment, budgeted from the company's own funds for the 2026 fiscal year, was intended to interconnect traditional financial services with new monetary solutions. The selection criteria targeted exclusively Cameroonian law firms specialized in IT integration. The insufficiency or non-conformity of the received bids forces the general management to re-evaluate the technical specifications or financial conditions of the specifications book before a possible relaunch.

The postponement of the equipment program comes at a time when the physical network is facing aggressive competition from mobile phone operators and digital banking platforms. The postal company had planned to exploit a network of 87 post offices to improve the financial inclusion of populations, particularly in underserved areas without bank branches. To preserve the market share of postal savings banks, the management structure must now arbitrate between a rapid resumption of the call for tenders and a revision of the lot pricing, the securing of proximity payment flows remaining the essential condition for making territorial agencies viable.


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