Learn procurement law for trouble-free government transactions

MANILA, Philippines - The biggest buyer and consumer of infrastructure, goods and services is the government. The private sector can win big by entering into public-private business transactions but it is essential that they first fully understand the procurement law and its IRR. Failure to know this can cost private individuals to be part of the statistics of government officials with criminal and administrative cases based on Commission On Audit (COA) findings of irregular transactions. Given the big money involved, many public officials as well as private entities dealing with government get into trouble due to ignorance of the procurement law.

Stay out of trouble by learning everything you must know about procurement law including the right procedures and interpretation of rules on bidding, bid qualification and disqualifications, bid award, contract implementation, protest mechanisms, remedies, decided cases on protest and disputes, contract termination, settlement, detecting irregular transactions, addressing common problem areas and many more. 

To help you on this, the Center for Global Best Practices is launching a pioneering two-day seminar titled, “What You Must Know About the Government Procurement Law and Its Implementing Rules and Regulations: Ensuring Compliance with RA 9184 and its IRR” to be held on Oct. 1 and 2, 2015 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City. For details and a complete list of best practices seminars including Best Practices In the Preparation, Defenses and Remedies on SALN, Best Practices and Remedies to Avoid COA Disallowances, How To Prepare Your Statement of Contributions and Expenditures for Electoral Candidates, Understanding Election Law: Rules, Defenses and Remedies, Winning the Election Battleground Through Social Media, log on to www.cgbp.org or call (02) 842-7148/ 59 and 556-8968/ 69; Cebu lines (032) 512-3106 or 07 or Baguio telephone (074) 423-5148.

This program is highly recommended for officials in national government agencies, LGUs and GOCCs as well as the business sector – suppliers, contractors and consultants and would-be players – who want to participate and do business with the biggest client of them all – the government.

This special seminar will feature Engr. Antonio V. Molano Jr. who is presently the director of DPWH Region 3. He is an expert on procurement of goods and infrastructure, having written the procurement manual and bidding documents for civil works and lectured extensively on these topics, and was part of the team that drafted the IRR on procurement law, and Edmund B. Talle, who served as a director of the Department of Budget and Management, procurement specialist of the AusAID program on Provincial Road Management Facility under the Coffey International Development Pty in 2012, chair of the Regional Inter-Agency Bids and Awards Committee (R-IABAC) in Region VIII, and lectures on Procurement Law and IRR for the capacity building of many LGUs. Pre-registration is required in this limited seats only event. Register early and avail of the early registration savings and group discounts for three or more participants.