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Infrastructure Contracts Without Required Supporting Documents

Department of Public Works and Highways · 2024

Severity: HighRecommendation: Unknown

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What Happened?

Category: Compliance and ReportingIssue: Non-compliance

Nearly a hundred contracts worth more than P8 billion had no supporting paperwork, so there is no evidence that proper procurement steps were followed.

Why It Matters

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Original Audit Finding Excerpt

"Audit revealed that the supporting documents required under the foregoing laws, rules and regulations, such as financial and technical proposals of the bidders, Net Financial Contracting Capacity, Contractors’ All-Risk Insurance Performance Security/Bond, Minutes of Pre-Bid and Pre-Procurement Conference, Omnibus Sworn Statements, Construction Safety and Health Program (CSHP), NOA, NTP, posting of procurement activities in PhilGEPs and procuring entities websites, among others, were not submitted to support at least 98 contracts with total cost of P8,646,419,337.42 in various DPWH Offices."

Source Document

09-DPWH2024_Part2-Observations_and_Recomm.pdf

2024 AAR · 13 files