Housing Production Outside Mandate and Non-Compliance with Bidding Requirements
National Housing Authority · 2023
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What Happened?
Category: ComplianceIssue: Non-complianceThe agency acted beyond its mandate by producing housing as a financer, and did not follow competitive bidding rules, violating an executive order.
Why It Matters
Recommended Actions
- Management: Conduct competitive public bidding to ensure the competency of contractors in providing safe, quality and standard HUs and/or buildings within the specified timeframe
- And Revise the provisions of the CBIA Omnibus Guidelines per MC No. 2021-027 dated August 2, 2021, to comply with the requirement of competitive public bidding prior to awarding contracts and should adopt the appropriate governing laws cited in Section 7 of EO No. 423 dated April 30, 2005.
Original Audit Finding Excerpt
"The housing production of NHA supposedly as financer through Community Based Initiative Approach (CBIA) is considered outside of its mandate, resulting in most of their housing contracts not coursed through competitive public bidding, contrary to the provisions of EO No. 423 dated April 30, 2005."