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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Saturday, January 7, 2017
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BACOLOD City – City hall is still clarifying with the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) whether or not it should pay an infrastructure project contractor, stressed City Legal Officer Joselito Bayatan.
The GPPB promised to reply soon, Bayatan said.
He also vowed a response from the city government in case the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) demands one. “We are ready to explain,” the lawyer said.
Penjan Builders and Supply had asked the DILG to investigate the city government for not paying its dues.
It has been nine months since city hall was supposed to pay the company, which supplied materials for the rehabilitation of damaged unpaved roads in the barangays, three Penjan personnel wrote Secretary Ismael Sueno.
Penjan delivered “aggregate base materials and volcanic soil” under a contract with the local government under then mayor Monico Puentevella.
Bayatan said they want the GPPB to ascertain whether or not the city government should pay the contractor even though the bidding process that was supposed to last 20 days was held within only 15 days.
He said the project was published in the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System, or PhilGEPS, on March 8, 2016 and “closed” by the 23rd.
It is a violation of the procurement law, claimed the lawyer.
“If GPPB says we should pay (despite this), so it’s fine,” Bayatan said.
“We are prejudiced by the actions of certain city officials under now Mayor Evelio Leonardia, specifically Executive Assistant Eduardo Ravena and Secretary to the Mayor Atty. Edward Joseph Cuansing,” said Penjan.
They accused Ravena and Cuansing of violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees, and the Anti-Red Tape Law./PN
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