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The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has deployed its Point-of-Sale (POS) electronic facility in the Procurement Service and PhilGEPS Offices earlier in 2015.

This cashless payment facility is available to all walk-in merchants transacting with the PS at its office in Paco, Manila and at the PhilGEPS office in Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Primarily, this will be used for the payment of the PhilGEPS Membership Fee by merchants upgrading to Blue or Platinum Membership and for merchants transacting with the PS, for payment of bidding documents fee. Note that a processing fee of Php 10.00 will be charged for each transaction.

This payment scheme shall initially cover acceptance of all locally issued ATM Cards and Debit Cards (BancNet, Expressnet, and Megalink).

The PS and PhilGEPS will no longer be issuing Official Receipts for this type of transaction. As such, the POS-receipt that will be generated by the POS machine must have a duly accomplished Order of Payment for it be valid.

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Officials of the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan, particularly from the Department of National Properties, Ministry of Finance, visited the Philippines on February 9 to 13, 2015 to conduct a study tour and learn more about the government procurement process, including its best practices. The study tour provided an opportunity for them to conduct research particularly on the procurement of goods and services, and how to realize government savings through cost effective and efficient procurement methods.

The delegation met with PS-PhilGEPS officials, and were welcomed by PS Executive Director Jose Tomas C. Syquia, and were presented with lectures and discussions on the procurement processes and services of PS such as procurement planning, annual procurement plan, procurement of commonly-used supplies and equipment (CSEs) and non-CSEs, inspection process, and warehousing, among others. Also included in their activities was the observation of a public bidding activity conducted by the Bids and Awards Committee and how inspection of common office supplies were being carried out prior to acceptance and payment.

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The Union OF Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) invited the PS-PhilGEPS to participate as one of the lead convenors in the “Innovative Solutions to Open Government Partnership (ISOGP)” which was attended by Local Government Units (LGUs) from Regions III, IV-A, IV- B, V and NCR. The activity was held last February 27, 2015 at the Microsoft Office in Makati City.

The ISOGP is a follow through event to the Good Governance Dialogue Regional Fora, the main objective of which is to cascade the country’s commitments to the Open Government Partnership primarily on budget reforms and fiscal transparency. ISOGP intends to bring private partners to the LGUs that will help them to implement the technology-based OGP projects and programs in their locality.

The one day event was an opportunity for LGUs to be provided with presentations on programs and digital solutions that will further enhance their capacity to implement projects on good governance and enhance transparency in their processes. Director Rosa Maria Clemente of PhilGEPS expounded on the thrusts of PhilGEPS to engage local government units to register and use the web-based system to post important and appropriate information on their procurement activities and gather information as they plan their procurement.

 

 

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