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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Blacklist of erring contractors proposed
BAGUIO City Councilor Antonio Tabora Jr. has proposed the blacklisting of contractors who violate their infrastructure project contracts funded by the City Government.
To recommend the blacklisting would be a board headed by the chairperson of the City Council committee on public works and members composed of the department heads of the City Engineers Office (CEO) and the City Buildings and Architecture Office (CBAO).
Using as basis Memorandum Circular (MC) 94-185 of the Department of the Interior and Local Governments (DILG), which allowed local government units (LGUs) to adopt guidelines on the bidding, processing, awarding and implementation of LGU-minded infrastructure projects, the proposed resolution formulated the guidelines, which would be used as basis in blacklisting contractors.
During the bidding stage, a suspension of one year for the first offense and suspension of two years for the second offense from joining a public bidding, is suggested to bidders who submit falsified documents, bids that contain false entries, unauthorized use of the name of another bidder, withdrawal of bid, refusal to enter into a contract with the City Government without justifiable cause, refusal or failure to post a security bond, refusal to validate abstract of during post evaluation and influencing the outcome of the bidding.
The suspension, the proposal states, is without prejudice to the imposition of additional administrative sanctions the City Government wishes to undertake, including the filing of criminal charges.
The same punishment of one to two years suspension with administrative or criminal charges would be imposed on contractors who, during the implementation stage, fail to mobilize work within the specified period provided by the City Government, failure to fully and faithfully comply with contractual obligations without valid cause, subcontracting and substitution of key personnel without the written approval by concerned government agencies and unsatisfactory progress of the contractual obligation arising from negligence and use of substandard materials.
In addition to penalties, the performance security would likewise be forfeited. (RO)
(March 15, 2006 issue)
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