Requesting Entity: Authority of Freeport Area of Bataan Issues Concern: Protest Fee for Multi-Year Projects Details Whether the computation of the protest fee for a 3-year contract should be based on the ABC per year or for the whole duration of the contract [T]he non-refundable protest fee should be in the amount or percentage of continue reading : NPM No. 091-2015

Requesting Entity: Southern Tagalog Integrated Agricultural Research Center Department of Agriculture, RFO IV-A Issues Concern: Transfer of Procurement between BACs Details Whether it is allowed and acceptable for one Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) to transfer its procurement and funding to another set of BAC of the same office [T]he creation of several BACs and continue reading : NPM No. 092-2015

Requesting Entity: GMA News Research GMA Network, Inc. Issues Concern: LGU Head Related to a Contractor’s Officer Details Whether the relationship between the head of a Local Government Unit (LGU) and an officer of the contractor, i.e., an officer of a contractor is the brother of the son-in-law of the Mayor, is prohibited under Republic continue reading : NPM No. 093-2015

Requesting Entity: National Food Authority Issues Concern: Procurement of Accountable Forms Details Clarification on the Procurement of Accountable Forms thru Recognized Government Printers (RGPs) [P]rocuring entities are mandated to procure the printing of Accountable Forms from any of the three (3) RGPs through an Agency-to-Agency procurement modality, in accordance with the procedure prescribed under GPPB continue reading : NPM No. 094-2015

Requesting Entity: Municipality of Baras Issues Concern: Source of Honoraria Details Whether the slippage fee can be used as honoraria. Applying the Latin maxim expressio unius est exclusio alterius, a rule in statutory construction, which means the express mention of one person, thing or consequence, implies the exclusion of all others, honoraria cannot be sourced from continue reading : NPM No. 095-2015

Requesting Entity: Department of Budget and Management Regional Office VIII Issues Concern: Deadline for Submission and Opening of Bids Details Whether the Procuring Entity may revert to its original schedule of submission and opening of bids, although it is less than the prescribed period provided in the rules, in order to fast track its procurement continue reading : NPM No. 096-2015

Requesting Entity: Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) Issues Concern: Direct Contracting; Mixed Procurement Details Whether DBP could adopt the modality of Direct Contracting under Section 50(a) of Republic Act (RA) No. 9184 and its revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) in the procurement of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Management System Upgrading Project (Project). A cursory continue reading : NPM No. 097-2015

Requesting Entity: Iloilo Science and technology University (ISTU) Issues Concern: Computation of Liquidated Damages (LD) Details Request for opinion on the correctness and validity of ISTU’s computation as regards the LD it imposed to the contractor of its project [T]he determination of the correctness and validity of the computation, relative to the penalty of liquidated continue reading : NPM No. 098-2015

Requesting Entity: Annex Digital, Incorporated (ADI) Issues Concern: Sealing and Marking of Bids Details Whether absence of bidder’s signature on the bid envelopes is a ground for disqualification. Clause 20.3 of the ITB for the Procurement of Goods provides that the original and copies of the envelopes containing the technical and financial components of the continue reading : NPM No. 099-2015

Requesting Entity: Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) Issues Concern: Purchase of Motor Vehicles Details Whether the OSG can procure two (2) types of Multi-Purpose Vehicles in one bidding process which will require the OSG to provide different technical specifications for each type of procurement [T]he OSG may indicate different technical specifications for different vehicles continue reading : NPM No. 100-2015