CEBU CITY—The Cebu City government has invited contractors to join the rebidding of the new billion-peso Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) project, but they must have completed a similar project in the last five years to qualify.
Cebu City Engr. Jose Marie Poblete, who heads the Bids and Awards Committee for the hospital project, said the criterion was put in place to “safeguard” the billion-peso project.
Poblete said they are required and mandated to follow the law as the project involves public funds.
But he said that, instead of a past hospital project worth at least P300 million, the BAC would only require 50 percent of the amount for the CCMC construction that costs nearly P600 million for first phase alone.
This is allowed under Section 23 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act 9184, the Government Procurement Reform Act.
“The prospective bidder must have experience of having completed at least one contract that is similar to the contract to be bid[ded out] and whose value, adjusted to the current prices…,” the IRR read. Poblete said they are lowering the requirement to entice more investors to participate in the rebidding.
“We can’t remove the five-year requirement but we are imposing the 50 percent [less] of the total contract cost instead of P300 million,” he said.
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