Requesting Entity: Duty Free Philippines Corporation Issues Concern: Direct Contracting; Executive Order No. 423 Details Request for guidance and approval relative to the plan to engage the services of an identified consultant through Negotiated Procurement of Direct Contracting [A]s a rule, the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) and its Technical Support Office have no power continue reading : NPM No. 086-2015

Requesting Entity: Himamaylan Water District Issues Concern: Property/Supply Officer as BAC Chairperson Details Propriety of designating a Property/Supply Officer as Chairperson of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC). [A] Property/Supply Officer may be designated as BAC Chairperson, provided that such officer possesses all the qualifications and none of the disqualifications under existing laws, rules and continue reading : NPM No. 087-2015

Requesting Entity: People’s Television Network, Inc. Issues Concern: Evaluation of Documents Submitted by Foreign Bidder Details Whether the documents submitted by a foreign bidder which were duly authenticated by the Philippine Embassy in Republic of Korea (South Korea) are compliant with Republic Act (RA) No. 9184 and its revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) [I]t continue reading : NPM No. 088-2015

Requesting Entity: City of Bayawan Issues Concern: Forms of Bid Security Details Guidance on which form of bid security a procuring entity should require. The PE is mandated to include the BSD in its Bidding Documents as an acceptable form of bid security and at least one (1) of the forms provided for under the continue reading : NPM No. 089-2015

Requesting Entity: Philippine International Trading Corporation Issues Concern: Submission of Manually-Filed Income Tax Return Details Whether suppliers, especially small companies, who wish to participate in Negotiated Procurement (Small Value) under Section 53.9 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) No. 9184, may submit manually-filed Income Tax Returns (ITR) As a rule, continue reading : NPM No. 090-2015

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: 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: 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