Monday, October 08, 2007
Report: There is irregularity in CHED's P300M call center project (6:19 p.m.)
MANILA ---The P300 million call center project initiated by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) is probably overpriced and involved serious irregularities in the bidding process conducted to award the contract to a lone bidder, a report by the technical and legal team tasked by Ched chairman Romulo Neri said.
In a 28-page report presented by Neri to all of the agency’s four commissioners Monday in an en banc meeting, the investigation found that the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) should have declared a failure of bidding upon pre-qualification of only one eligible bidder for the Integrated Multi-Site Business Process Outsourcing Incubation Contact Centers (BPO-ICC) project.
“The BAC could have declared a failed bidding. There were grounds to do so. Given the magnitude of the project, it would have been prudent to do so,” the investigating body said in their report.
The report said that aside from the pre-qualification of only one group to participate in a public bidding, the BAC, they said, could have considered the questions raised by its technical working group (TWG) on the eligibility documents submitted by the consortium of E-Services Global Solutions, Inc. (ESGS), DrishtiPhilippines, Inc. (DPI), Information Transmission Computer Control, Inc. (ITCC), and Hillmarc’s Construction Corporation which bagged the project. (AH/Sunnex)
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