NPM No. 054-2014

Requesting Entity: Philippine Health Insurance Corporation Regional Office VI Issues Concern: Pre-Procurement Conference Details Amendment of Terms of Reference (TOR) of a project during the pre-procurement conference. [A]s long as the procurement opportunity has not yet been advertised and posted, the procuring entity can still change or amend the TOR for the project during the continue reading : NPM No. 054-2014

NPM No. 045-2014

Requesting Entity: Cebu Ports Authority (CPA) Issues Concern: Cancellation of Notice of Award (NOA) Details CPA seeks guidance regarding the cancellation of its NOA. At the outset, the Government Procurement Policy Board and its Technical Support Office has no jurisdiction to rule over actual controversies with regard to the conduct of the bidding since it continue reading : NPM No. 045-2014

NPM No. 046-2014

Requesting Entity: Commission on Audit (COA) Regional Office (RO) XII Issues Concern: Discounts Details Can a bidder be disqualified if its total bid price without the offered discount is higher than the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC)? An offer of discount can be validly considered in the computation of the total calculated price, in continue reading : NPM No. 046-2014

NPM No. 047-2014

Requesting Entity: Meycauayan Water District (MWD) Issues Concern: Single Largest Completed Contract (SLCC) Details Is it legal for the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) to award a contract to a bidder without a similar contract valued at least fifty percent (50%) of the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC)? At the outset, the Government Procurement continue reading : NPM No. 047-2014

NPM No. 048-2014

Requesting Entity: Kabankalan City Government Issues Concern: Department of Trade and Industry Registration Details Whether a procuring entity can accept a bidder’s DTI Certificate of Registration issued by another region. A procuring entity may accept a bidder’s DTI Certificate of Registration in accordance with Sections 23.1(a)(i) and 24.1(a)(i) of the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations continue reading : NPM No. 048-2014

NPM No. 049-2014

Requesting Entity: Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) – Port Management Office (PMO) Zamboanga Issues Concern: Legal Documents for the Procurement of Individual Consultants Details In the engagement of individual consultants, whether it is sufficient to require the following instruments as part of the legal eligibility documents engagement of individual consultants: (1) Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) license continue reading : NPM No. 049-2014

NPM No. 041-2014

Requesting Entity: Department of National Defense (DND) Issues Concern: Government Procurement Policy Board Resolution No. 29-2012 and Bank Draft/Guarantee or Irrevocable Letter of Credit Issued by a Foreign Bank Details Whether the bidders are required to include in their statement of all ongoing and completed contracts government and private contracts those contracts governed by non-disclosure continue reading : NPM No. 041-2014

NPM No. 043-2014

Requesting Entity: Criminal Investigation & Detection Group (CIDG) – Philippine National Police (PNP) Issues Concern: Procurement by Lot; Basis of the ABC and Contract Award Details 1.Whether the procurement of medicine by lot is allowed under Republic Act No. (RA) 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) Procurement of projects by lot is continue reading : NPM No. 043-2014

NPM No. 044-2014

Requesting Entity: University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Issues Concern: Termination of Contracts Details 1.Whether the procedures for termination of contracts provided in the General Conditions of Contract of the Philippine Bidding Documents for the Procurement of Infrastructure Projects, and in the Guidelines on Termination of Contracts apply to infrastructure projects where the contract continue reading : NPM No. 044-2014

NPM No. 062-2014

Requesting Entity: M8 Manpower Services (M8) Issues Concern: Computation of Net Financial Contracting Capacity (NFCC) Details Clarification on contract duration that will be referred to for determining the value of K in the computation of the NFCC. The value of “K” must be based on the duration of the contract under consideration, or the would continue reading : NPM No. 062-2014