Bohol Bidding Scandal Update

[pioneer]

By the Bohol Chronicle

Condemning the latest scandal befalling the provincial government's
P168-million bidding of a brand new fleet of heavy equipment, Board Member Cesar Tomas Lopez yesterday said the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) "failed to comply" with key provisions of the procurement law.

Rising on a privileged speech during yesterday's session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), the lawmaker stressed the provincial government is "again put in a bad light due to the fact that the manner by which goods [are purchased] cannot face up to public scrutiny".

"Every transaction by the government, may it be P168 or P168-million, must pass public scrutiny and the probing eye of the Boholano," Lopez said.

Waving a copy of the Chronicle which bannered the alleged bid rigging last Sunday, Lopez said he is "shamed" by insinuations of corruption at the Capitol.

Lopez is the only member of the provincial board who is not a member of the Lakas-CMD-Kampi slate of Gov. Erico Aumentado and Vice Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera.

According to Lopez, the bidding process conducted by the BAC practically indicated in the technical specifications of the equipment to be purchased "the description of preferred brands".

[pot-pot]

ulaw kaayo ! dapat magpakabana na mga tawo .magmata nata oy!

[corgan]

What a shame!Moments like this am not proud to be a Filipino more so a Boholano at that!