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A city official, who requested anonymity, said the Budget Office (BO) and General Services Office (GSO) had pegged a high ACE for the grocery items, resulting in the astronomical prices.


The source said the BO and GSO should be made to explain the high ACE of the grocery items.


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Documents obtained by The STAR showed that most of the canned goods such as corned beef, tuna and fruit cocktail were priced double and in some cases, more than double, the prevailing market prices.


It was learned that the 70,000 plastic bags that bore the logo of President Joseph Ejercito Estrada and Mayor Wencesiao "Peewee" Trinidad, which contained the groceries, cost P18 each.


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It was learned that the 70,000 plastic bags that bore the logo of President Joseph Ejercito Estrada and Mayor Wencesiao "Peewee" Trinidad, which contained the groceries, cost P18 each.


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‘Overpriced’ Christmas gifts in Pasay explained

By Rainier Allan Ronda | January 24, 2001 - 12:00am

A high agency cost estimate (ACE) was blamed for the overpriced grocery items in the 70,000 Christmas packages distributed by the Pasay City government to city employees and poor residents last Christmas. A city...

Metro

Pasay government Christmas gifts grossly overpriced?

January 18, 2001 - 12:00am

Groceries in the 70,000 Christmas packages distributed by the Pasay City government to the city’s poor last Christmas were allegedly overpriced. Documents obtained...

Metro