Highly scrutinized PS-DBM ends COVID supply purchases

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The Procurement Service of the DBM has removed pandemic supplies from its list of “common-use” items that it began purchasing at the onset of the COVID-19 contagion in 2020. | bendeveraINQ

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Common-use items include equipment and materials being used by government agencies in their day-to-day office operations, such as paper, computers, printers, pens, and pencils. In 2019, the DBM added motor vehicles to the list. GPPB documents showed that in August 2021, the board received a letter from the PS-DBM endorsing the DOH request to delist the items that were eventually removed this month. The Senate inquiry opened that month.The GPPB said that the DOH requested the reclassification of the pandemic supplies “to regular or noncommon-use items so that the DOH and other health facilities can procure these commodities on their own considering that these items are regularly used in health facilities.

The centralized procurement of such items was approved by the GPPB, which issued guidelines, especially during the implementation of the Bayanihan 1 and 2 laws. GPPB data showed that during the implementation of Bayanihan 1 and 2 in 2020, the PS-DBM was the procuring entity with the biggest amount of awarded contracts, totaling over P21 billion, at the least.

 

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