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

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

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

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

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

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

Requesting Entity: Ms. Teresita M. Mistal Issues Concern: Application of RA 9184 to Local Government Units (LGUs) Details Whether the Members of the BAC in LGUs may come from offices other than those included in the enumeration in Sec 11.2.3 of the IRR of RA 9184. The list of offices mentioned in Sec 11.2.3 of continue reading : NPM No. 036-2014

Requesting Entity: Municipality of Tigaon Issues Concern: ISO Certification Details Whether an ISO Certification can be included as a requirement for bidding of an ARCP II project that is funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). At the outset, we would like to clarify two things. First, procurement continue reading : NPM No. 037-2014

Requesting Entity: Caveat Law Issues Concern: Expendable Supplies Details Whether Maintenance Free Lead Acid Batteries and Retrofit Led Flasher Lights are considered as expendable supplies under Republic Act (RA) No. 9184 and its revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). The determination of the classification of the goods as expendable or non-expendable is material to the continue reading : NPM No. 038-2014

Requesting Entity: U-High Solutions, Inc. (UHSI) Issues Concern: Acceptability of Tax Delinquency Verification Certificate Details Whether a Delinquency Verification Certificate can be used as a replacement for the Tax Clearance requirement, which is one of the eligibility requirements for competitive bidding under the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. (RA) 9184. continue reading : NPM No. 039-2014