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747 DPWH infrastructure projects had technical defects due to poor supervision

Department of Public Works and Highways · 2024

Severity: HighRecommendation: Unknown

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What Happened?

Category: Project ManagementIssue: Non-compliance

Hundreds of public construction projects were built badly because they were not supervised or monitored properly. The defects affected at least P6.46 billion worth of projects and left some projects unusable, so the public did not get the facilities or benefits that were supposed to be delivered.

Why It Matters

Recommended Actions

No recommendations are available for this finding yet.

Original Audit Finding Excerpt

"ix We recommended and Management agreed to direct the Unified Project Management Office to: a) conduct thorough due diligence during the feasibility and engineering stages to identify and proactively address potential risks, including Right-of-Way issues, site viability, and permitting requirements, to prevent project delays; b) implement a real -time monitoring dashboard to track the progress of Foreign-Assisted Projects and ensure compliance with DPWH Department Order No. 193, s. 2016, focusing on projects with significant slippage; c) strengthen intra and inter-agency coordination by formalizing engagements with relevant agencies, local government units, and stakeholders to expedite approvals and permit processes and avoid overlapping of project scope of works; d) streamline disbursement processes, align them with loan disbursement schedules, and coordinate with foreign lending institutions to reduce delays and avoid incurring unnecessary commitment fees; and e) provi"

Source Document

03-DPWH2024_Executive_Summary.pdf

2024 AAR · 13 files