Requesting Entity: Office of the Commandant Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Issues Concern: Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) Chairmanship in the PCG Details Whether the Chief of Coast Guard Staff (CCGS) may be designated as Chairman of the BAC pursuant to Section 11 of the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 9184 continue reading : NPM No. 147-2012

Requesting Entity: Ready Form Incorporated (RFI) Issues Concern: Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) Resolutions on the Guidelines on the Procurement of Printing Services Details Whether GPPB Resolution Nos. 04-2010 and 05-2010 are valid issuances considering the incompatibility between the GAAs 2010, 2011, and 2012 and Section 10 of RA 9184. RA 9184 is the special continue reading : NPM No. 148-2012

Requesting Entity: Bureau of Internal Revenue Issues Concern: Section 3.2.4.1 of Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) Circular No. 03-2012 Details Whether Section 3.2.4.1 of GPPB Circular No. 03-2012 dated 17 August 2012 on Post-Qualification and Issuance of Notice of Post-disqualification, is applicable only to the procurement of infrastructure projects as it mentions “negative slippage”, a continue reading : NPM No. 149-2012

Requesting Entity: National Police Commission Issues Concern: Post-disqualification Details Whether a bidder should be post-disqualified outright for non-compliance with the technical specifications, or given a chance to re-submit a new product sample that is compliant with the requirements. In the event that the verification, validation, and ascertainment conducted by the PE yield a negative result; continue reading : NPM No. 146-2012

Requesting Entity: Bacolod City Issues Concern: Responsiveness of Bids Details Whether a bidder in the “Garbage Collection and Hauling” Project (Project) of the City of Bacolod may be post-disqualified due to the fact that its proposed transfer station is located within a residential area. [U]nder City Ordinance No. 216 (CO 216), Series of 1998, “transfer continue reading : NPM No. 144-2012

Requesting Entity: Jodaar Cottage Industries Issues Concern: Protest Fee; Sealing and Marking of Bids Details Whether a bidder may be disqualified on the basis of non-observance of the procedure on sealing and marking of bids. [W]hile rules of procedure on the marking of the bids are detailed and more specific, the rules of procedure on continue reading : NPM No. 145-2012

Requesting Entity: Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Issues Concern: Printing of Fuson Stamps Details Whether the Implementing Guidelines on Agency-to-Agency Agreements (Guidelines) apply to BIR’s engagement of the services of APO Production Unit (APO) for the Printing of Secured Fuson Stamps (Project) to be affixed on each manufactured pack of cigars and cigarettes, wherein the continue reading : NPM No. 139-2012

Requesting Entity: Technology Resource Center (TRC) Issues Concern: Direct Contracting under Section 50(c) of the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 9184 Details Whether TRC can resort to Direct Contracting as provided in Section 50 of RA 9184 and its IRR in the procurement of equipment exclusively designed, developed and produced continue reading : NPM No. 140-2012

Requesting Entity: Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Issues Concern: Payment of Overtime Services to Members of the BAC Secretariat Details Can members of the BAC Secretariat claim overtime pay for services rendered in excess of official working hours for all procurement related activities, i.e. not limited to services rendered for projects procured through competitive bidding? continue reading : NPM No. 141-2012