Learn how to prepare bid documents

MANILA, Philippines — The Government Procurement and Policy Board regularly release compliance regulations that will boost the efficiency of procurement and bidding for consulting services. Whether you are doing government to government (G2G) or government to private transactions, you must update yourselves to these changes. To help public and private stakeholders on this, the Center for Global Best Practices will host an online training entitled, Best Practices Guide to Prepare New Bid Forms and Templates for Consulting Services to be held on Tuesday, Oct. 25 from 1:30 p.m.to 4:45 p.m. via Zoom.

The rules mandate all government entities and prospective bidders to use the revised bidding documents for the procurement of consulting services. Failure to successfully conclude procurement projects are normally due to faulty crafting of the TORs and requirements in the bidding documents, while the disqualification of bidders are attributable to inability to align their bidding documents with the Philippine bidding documents (5th Edition). This training program is designed to guide participants in the preparation of their bidding documents based on the provisions of the RA 9184 or the 2016 Revised IRR on the Procurement Law and the recent GPPB issuances.

Learn from expert practitioner, lawyer Zoilo Andin Jr. who is a seasoned lecturer, senior consultant, and adviser to many national government agencies, LGUs, private companies, and law firms on Procurement Law. His expertise in public procurements was honed by his former government positions – president and chief operations officer, Northrail Corp.; deputy administrator, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System; executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Commission and the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission.

Registration is open to the general public and is highly recommended for the head of procuring entity (HOPE), chairman and members of Bids and Awards committee, procuring and bidding entities, and those in the private sector who would like to do business with the government. For details and to register, visit www.cgbp.org or call Manila Lines (+63 2) 8556-8968 / 69 or (+63 2) 8842-7148 / 59.

CGBP is an accredited training provider of the DILG-Local Government Academy, Governance Commission for GOCCs, Civil Service Commission and other regulatory bodies. Government employees who enroll in this training program will not be covered by Philippine Procurement Law or RA 9184 based on its Revised IRR’s Section 4.5-b, which classifies training and seminars as non-procurement activities. DBM circular 563 issued on April 22, 2016 also exempts public officials and government employees from the P2,000-limit per day on training fees.