EXPECT faster procurement process for projects under the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the agency’s chief said, as it moves to sweeten its bidding rules.
Public Works Secretary Rogelio L. Singson said he has ordered the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) in all regional and district engineering offices to no longer compel bidders to submit at least three requirements during the opening of bids for eligibility processing.
He listed the three as: the Contractor Registration Certificate, Contractor’s Information, and Class “A” documents enumerated in Section 23.1 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act 9184, or the Government Procurement Reform Act, as part of the technical envelope.
“This development was a result of the updates in the DPWH Civil Works Registry, or CWR, which provides a computerized database of contractors being used for objective, standardized, transparent and efficient processing of interested contractors for the DPWH civil works contracts during the eligibility process conforming to existing laws and regulations,” Singson said.
The database is being used to register contractors and determine their eligibility to bid for a project they intend to participate in.
In the updated CWR, the DPWH BAC can now view the contractor’s authorized liaison officer through the CWR’s contact person verification function. This will prevent unauthorized submission of bids by some unscrupulous individuals posing as contractor’s representatives or liaison officers.
An updated version of the CWR v3.5.2 has also been deployed in DPWH Regional and District Engineering Offices, allowing them to print the CI of prospective bidders after eligibility, for evaluation purposes. These prospective bidders need not to submit hard copies of CRC and CI thus preventing the submission of spurious or fake CRC and CI.
Additionally, a new version of CWR will also be deployed wherein contractors will be able to view their information online.