Requesting Entity: Office of the President Issues Concern: Resort to Negotiated Procurement Details Request for guidance on resort to Negotiated Procurement. Please be advised that generally the approval of the GPPB on the use of a particular alternative method of procurement is not required under R.A. 9184 and its IRR-A. The determination and accountability for the continue reading : NPM No. 041-2008

Requesting Entity: Philippine Coconut Authority Issues Concern: Single Calculated/Rated and Responsive Bid Details Whether or not an internal policy of requiring award of contract only if there are at least two eligible bidders who submitted bids is in accord with R.A. 9184. We regret to inform you that said proposal runs counter to the mandate of continue reading : NPM No. 042-2008

Requesting Entity: VTJ Trading Issues Concern: Warranty Security for the Procurement of Goods Details Whether or not the ten percent (10%) retention money may be dispensed with in the delivery of livestock which are given away without restrictions considering that any casualty thereof is no longer the liability of the suppliers inasmuch as the same is continue reading : NPM No. 040-2008

Requesting Entity: Windshear International Philippines, Inc. Issues Concern: Hold-out Provision for Cash Deposit Certificate Details Request for clarification on the removal of the “hold-out” provision for the cash deposit certificate as an eligibility document. [D]uring the GPPB deliberations, it was propounded, among others, that requiring a hold-out provision on the cash deposit certificate would not serve continue reading : NPM No. 038-2008

Requesting Entity: Omniworx, Inc. Issues Concern: Hold-out Provision for Cash Deposit Certificate Details Request for clarification on the removal of the “hold-out” provision for the cash deposit certificate as an eligibility document. [D]uring the GPPB deliberations, it was propounded, among others, that requiring a hold-out provision on the cash deposit certificate would not serve the purpose continue reading : NPM No. 039-2008

Requesting Entity: Province of Bukidnon Issues Concern: Cooperative Undertakings among Local Governments Details 1. Request for exemption from the 25% threshold for projects undertaken through Agency-to-Agency Agreement. It is the general poilcy of government to purchase its requirements from the private sector. However, the GPPB acknowledges that, in some exceptional cases, procurement from or contracting with continue reading : NPM No. 037-2008

Requesting Entity: Presidential Commission on Good Government Issues Concern: Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants Procurement Details Whether or not GPPB Resolution 11-2007 applies only to bulk procurement of Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricant (POL) Products through public bidding by government agencies and instrumentalities whose POL procurement is a major requirement in their operations. [W]hile GPPB Resolution 11-2007 provides continue reading : NPM No. 034-2008

Requesting Entity: Bantayan Security Agency & Allied Services, Inc. Issues Concern: Negotiated Procurement under Section 53 (a) Details Whether or not the present service provider may be considered in the conduct of negotiated procurement pursuant to Section 53 (a) of R.A. 9184 and its IRR-A. [W]e would like to stress that the resort to Negotiated Procurement, continue reading : NPM No. 035-2008

Requesting Entity: Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Unit No. 2 Issues Concern: Single Calculated and Responsive Bid Details Whether or not a single rated and responsive bid for consulting services should be considered for award. Section 36 of R.A. 9184, as iterated under the same section of the IRR-A, provides [that a single calculated and continue reading : NPM No. 036-2008

Requesting Entity: Department of Education Issues Concern: Training Venues from Government Agencies Details Whether or not venues/facilities owned/managed by government agencies may be tapped directly for trainings, workshops, and conferences, instead of thru public bidding, on the assumption that these are government agencies. [T]he prohibition on the use of agency-to-agency agreement by the GPPB per Section continue reading : NPM No. 032-2008