Requesting Entity: Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) Issues Concern: Advance Payment for Consulting Services Details Whether advance payment can be made at any time during the implementation of the contract. Advance payment, as a general rule, is not allowed. As an exception, however, advance payment may be extended to a consultant for purposes of continue reading : NPM No. 126-2012

Requesting Entity: Road Board (RB) Issues Concern: Composition of the Road Board Secretariat Special Bids and Awards Committee (RBS-SBAC) Details Whether the RBS can appoint its Chief Accountant as SBAC member. COA Circular 2003-004 states in clear and unequivocal terms that the Chief Accountant and the personnel of the Accounting Unit of any agency of continue reading : NPM No. 120-2012

Requesting Entity: University of the Philippines Manila Issues Concern: Separate Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) Details Whether the Philippine General Hospital may create a separate BAC which shall be exclusively responsible for all its procurement needs. [A]lthough the general rule requires the creation of a single BAC, the establishment of separate BACs in accordance with continue reading : NPM No. 119-2012

Requesting Entity: Jodaar Cottage Industries Issues Concern: Domestic Preference and the Single Largest Completed Contract (SLCC) Requirement for Goods Details Whether local suppliers offering foreign products are barred from participating in government procurement. Section 43.1.1 of the revised IRR of RA 9184 x x x provides that in the interest of availability, efficiency and timely continue reading : NPM No. 118-2012

Requesting Entity: Good Governance Books Issues Concern: Exclusive Distributorship Details Whether the immediate resort to Direct Contracting in the procurement of books authored by a particular author is justified by the fact that they are published and distributed by an exclusive distributor. [T]he Procuring Entity must justify the necessity for an item that may only continue reading : NPM No. 116-2012

Requesting Entity: Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) Issues Concern: Posting of Warranty Security under Section 62 of Republic Act 9184 Details Which version of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of RA 9184 shall be applied to R.D. Policarpio and Company, Inc. (RDPCI) in posting the warranty security for a project that commenced in continue reading : NPM No. 117-2012

Requesting Entity: Credit Information Corporation (CIC) Issues Concern: Scope and Application of Republic Act (RA) No. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) Details Whether there is a need for CIC to undergo the process of competitive bidding in procuring the services of IFC, or, in view of the Grant offered by the continue reading : NPM No. 115-2012

Requesting Entity: National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) Issues Concern: Commission on Audit (COA) Observers Details Whether the attendance of COA’s representatives as Observers is not mandatory, and whether it will not nullify the proceedings of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC). Section 13.3 of the IRR, x x x, mandates that Observers shall be invited at continue reading : NPM No. 114-2012

Requesting Entity: Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) – National Headquarters Issues Concern: Blacklisting Details 1. Whether the present BAC is bound by the determination made by the former BAC that the blacklisting complaint is sufficient in form and substance. RA 9184 and its revised IRR are silent as to the effect of changes in the continue reading : NPM No. 109-2012

Requesting Entity: Morente Farolan & Mallari (MFM) Issues Concern: Section 32.2.3 vis-a-vis Section 34.3 of the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 9184 Details Clarification on the correct interpretation and application of Sections 32.2.3 and 34.4 of the revised IRR of RA 9184. [A]lthough Section 32.2.3(b) of the revised IRR applies continue reading : NPM No. 110-2012