Atty. Jose Tomas C. Syquia is the OIC – Executive Director V of the Procurement Service-PhilGEPS.
Exec. Dir. Syquia earned his Juris Doctor (second honors) from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1994, and obtained his Masters of Law in International Law from the University of Nottingham, UK in 1996, and a Certificate in Procurement (EU Public and Advance Procurement Law, Organization and Management of Procurement Systems) in 2012, also from the same university. His main areas of specialization include Securities Law and Corporation/Commercial Law, and Public Procurement.
Having been engaged in the practice of law since 1995, Exec. Dir. Syquia is not new to government service. His career in government started back in 1997as a State Counsel at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and he was also a Director at the Compliance and Enforcement Department of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before being a private law practitioner. He has taken on numerous procurement consultancy projects where he was a procurement advisor to various government agencies such as the Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), and DBM, before assuming the Executive Director post at the PS-PhilGEPS.