Requesting Entity: LCV Design and Fabrication Corp. Issues Concern: Floor Price or Lower Limit Details Clarification on whether there is a floor price or lower limit on a bid offer. [U]nder Section 31 of Republic Act (RA) No. 9184 and its revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), there shall be no lower limit or floor on continue reading : NPM No. 135-2014

Requesting Entity: LS Guard Force Security and Investigation Agency, Inc. (LS guard) Issues Concern: Request for Amendment to Instruction to Bidders (ITB) Clause 12.1(a)(iii) Details Request to amend the SLCC requirement in order accommodate newly established businesses that have no sufficient experience yet to comply with said requirement. [T]he Single Largest Completed Contract (SLCC) criterion continue reading : NPM No. 133-2014

Requesting Entity: Powerking Industries Corporation Issues Concern: Technical Specifications and Conduct of Pre-Bid Conference Details Whether the Procuring Entity (PE) has the discretion not to provide the Technical Specifications of the project to be procured. Pursuant to Section 17.5 of the IRR of RA 9184, it is mandatory for the PE to post the Bidding continue reading : NPM No. 132-2014

Requesting Entity: Philippine Mining Development Corporation (PMDC) Issues Concern: Abstract of Canvass; Small Value Procurement or Shopping Details Whether BAC Resolutions are necessary for procurements conducted through Small Value Procurement and Shopping, aside from the preparation and issuance of Abstracts of Canvass that are signed by the Chairman and Members of PMDC-BAC. [T]he Abstract of continue reading : NPM No. 131-2014

Requesting Entity: City Government of Navotas Issues Concern: Outsourcing and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Details 1. Whether the City Government of Navotas can undertake the acquisition of the following service centers of the hospital: laboratory, x-ray and ultrasound imaging, and pharmacy through Outsourcing and Public-Private Partnership. On the proposed outsourcing and PPP arrangement for the laboratory, continue reading : NPM No. 130-2014

Requesting Entity: LRCA Trading, Inc. (LTI) Issues Concern: Requirements for a Valid Joint Venture Details Whether two companies having the same majority incorporators can validly enter into a joint venture agreement under Republic Act (RA) No. 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act. It is a well-settled doctrine that a corporation is invested by law continue reading : NPM No. 129-2014

Requesting Entity: National Development Company (NDC) Issues Concern: Progress Billing/Payment Details Whether progress billing/payment is allowed in the procurement of supply and delivery of services for the installation of an accounting system/software. [T]he procurement law and its associated rules and procedures admit of procurement transactions allowing partial deliveries and progress payment for each delivery of continue reading : NPM No. 128-2014

Requesting Entity: Ms. Edcel Nacion Issues Concern: Shopping and Request for Quotation Details In Shopping, whether the requirement for three (3) quotations is met when only one supplier offered a price while the other two suppliers indicated “NONE” in compliance with the Request for Quotation (RFQ) and the Guidelines for Shopping and Small Value Procurement continue reading : NPM No. 127-2014

Requesting Entity: HLYC Trading Issues Concern: Blacklisting Details When does the Blacklisting Order become final and executory [I]t is the Decision to Suspend that becomes final and executory which results in the issuance of a Blacklisting Order. Conversely, the Blacklisting Order contains, among others, the sanctions imposed on the erring contractor (i.e. the disqualification from continue reading : NPM No. 125-2014

Requesting Entity: CITY GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBOANGA Issues Concern: PCAB License Details Whether the PCAB License, as an eligibility requirement, can be substituted by certificates from Los Contratistas de Zamboanga and/or from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Regional Office 9 issued to the effect that the Application for Renewal of PCAB License has been continue reading : NPM No. 126-2014