Philippines Country Procurement Assessment Report 2012
Proper public procurement practices directly reflect good governance. Transparent and effective procurement practices minimize expenditure and create opportunity. Procurement is an enormous component in the process by which governments build infras...
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| Format: | Economic & Sector Work |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Manila
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/18801469/philippines-country-procurement-assessment-report-cpar-2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16668 |
| Summary: | Proper public procurement practices
directly reflect good governance. Transparent and effective
procurement practices minimize expenditure and create
opportunity. Procurement is an enormous component in the
process by which governments build infrastructure, such as
schools and hospitals. It involves the management of
significant amounts of money and is therefore often the
cause for allegations of corruption and government
inefficiency. The difference between getting public
procurement right and doing it wrong has the potential to be
either highly rewarding, or highly damaging. In some
nations, reforms implemented to improve the efficiency of
public procurement have resulted in savings of 1% of a
country's gross domestic product. One can see why
public procurement is so significant to the development of a
country and its people. Citizens have the right to expect
their government to spend these funds for the good of the
people. In the past, corruption, inefficiency, ignorance,
and disorganization have resulted in billions of pesos worth
of losses. It is with the importance of these issues in mind
that this report is produced to report on the state of
procurement in the Philippines today. A 2012 CPAR action
plan integrating all the existing and proposed initiatives
and recommendations to address the areas for improvement in
the Public Procurement System is presented at the end of
this report. The action plan provides the road map and
agenda for procurement reforms to be undertaken by the
government, together with its development partners during
2013-2016. Some of the priorities focus on strengthening
monitoring and enforcement and procurement capacity, and
improving procurement processes and practices, i.e., (i)
implementation of the professionalization program, (ii)
implementation of the Agency Procurement Compliance and
Performance Indicator, or APCPI and development of
mechanisms to enforce compliance, (iii) review and possible
revision of the IRR to provide procedures for international
competitive bidding, (iv) establishment of an independent
complaints or protest review body and development of its
governing rules and procedures, and (v) development and
implementation of a framework to sustain and ensure CSO
participation in procurement monitoring. The Philippine
development forum sub-working Group on Procurement will
continue to monitor the implementation of the action plan,
ensure the availability of funding support and address
issues that may arise during implementation. |
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