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Publish Date : 30-Jan-2017

Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno, head of the Department of Budget of Management and chairperson of the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB), and Dr. Alfredo E. Pascual, president of the University of the Philippines (UP), signed on January 26, 2017, a memorandum of agreement on organizing and conducting a professionalization program, the Certified Public Procurement Specialist Course, for government employees involved in procurement processes.

This project is an initiative of the GPPB through its Technical Support Office (TSO) headed by Executive Director Atty. Dennis S. Santiago and implemented by the UP Charter of 2008 through its constituent university in Diliman. Through the Certified Public Procurement Specialist Course, the GPPB-TSO aims to train public procurement practitioners to correctly determine the requirements of their respective agencies or institutions as well as improve their efficiency and capacity to avoid wastage of government resources and ensure the proper utilization of government funds. Government underspending and widespread corruption in procurement practices and processes are partly blamed on the low levels of capacity among public procurement practitioners.

Underspendingis unacceptable as it means the government failed to deliver service to the public. But through a streamlined procurement process and a competent procurement officer, government underspending can be avoided, said Secretary Diokno. To address the said critical issues in government procurement, the GPPB-TSO has thus introduced several capacity development programs, and one of which is the aforementioned Public Procurement Specialist Course to be offered at the UP Diliman. Participants of the special course include members of Bids and Awards Committees (BAC), BAC Secretariat, and Technical Working Groups (TWG); heads of Procuring Entities (PE) of national agencies, Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCCs), State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), Government Financing Institutions (GFIs), and Local Government Units (LGUs) as well as private individuals and entities participating in government procurement.

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