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Imee says extended emergency might trigger procurement spree

Macon Ramos-AranetabyMacon Ramos-Araneta
August 18, 2022, 10:40 pm
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Senator Imee Marcos yesterday warned of procurements during the “extended emergency” as declared by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

She is pressing for greater direct procurement by national government agencies, ahead of an extended state of public health emergency and Congressional hearings on the 2023 national budget.

The state of calamity due to the coronavirus pandemic expired on September 12. “The series of procurement controversies that surfaced during the pandemic must end,” Marcos said.

She said the Commission on Audit (COA) has reported that they go back more than a decade.

“We can step up emergency response with more direct purchases of supplies, equipment, and services,” said Marcos.

The government, she added, will also be able to avoid redundant allocations and save billions in next year’s national budget.

Marcos has revived her call to abolish the Procurement Service – Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) and the Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) via Senate bills 1122 and 1123, which she first asserted during the 18th Congress.

“Both agencies were created by my dad (former President Ferdinand Marcos) in the 1970’s. But they have not only outlived their usefulness; they have in fact become agencies of malfeasance and corruption,” the senator said.

She also emphasized that the procurement services of national government agencies should instead be strengthened, in accordance with Republic Act 9184, or the Government Procurement Reform Act.

The PS-DBM has faced allegations of overpricing in the procurement of P42 billion worth of face masks, face shields, and personal protective equipment for the Department of Health last year and P2.4 billion worth of teachers’ laptops for the Department of Education just last week.

Sen.Marcos also questioned the PS-DBM’s practice of reselling equipment and supplies to national government agencies that funded their procurement.

Meanwhile, the PITC has become “a repository for  unobligated funds of national government agencies” that were avoiding the return of unused portions of their budget to the national treasury and using them to fund yearend bonuses.

The COA has flagged the PITC for about Php34 billion in idle funds from various national agencies, including those for procuring firetrucks and military supplies that had not been delivered for as long as six to eight years, “even as the GPRA recommends that procurements be completed in 136 days at most.”

“The original purpose of the PITC was to facilitate trade between socialist and other Centrally Planned Economy Countries, like the U.S.S.R. and China at the time, but only Cuba and North Korea remain as CPECs,” Sen. Marcos added

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