Last 3 October 2008, the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) resolved to move towards the preparation of one set of Implementing Rules and Regulations for Republic Act No.9184.
Presently, procurement of domestically-funded projects are governed by Implementing Rules and Regulations Part A or IRR-A. Since March this year, the GPPB has been meeting with development partners to prepare the initial draft of IRR-B or the implementing rules that will govern foreign-funded procurement activities.
In moving towards this ambitious task, the GPPB considered that most policy recommendations made were lessons learned from common experiences in implementing IRR-A. “We cannot have one set of rules that is more updated than the other” comments Usec. Laura B. Pascua, who chairs the Technical Working Group of the GPPB. “Besides, there is greater harmonization if we apply just one set of rules for both domestically and foreign-funded procurement,” she added.
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