TACLOBAN CITY – The City Procurement Office of the city government has clarified issues relating to the EVRAA athlete uniforms and the so-called substandard sport materials.
Eduardo Manadong, supervising administrative officer of the general services and in charged of the city mayor’s procurement office, raised some points on the failure of some legislators to get the EVRAA uniforms.
Manadong said that based on the purchase request of the DepEd City Division there was no mention of councilors being recipients of the uniform because the 600 uniforms were intended for the athletes and coaches.
However, Manadong explained that he was not aware of the distribution arrangement of the city schools division as they were responsible in the distribution.
He also belied the claims that said uniforms were sub-standard. In fact, the Tacloban delegation won in the “Best in Uniform” category during the EVRAA 2011.
“If the distribution of the EVRAA Uniform was done in the city, the City Procurement Office would have controlled its distribution and would have monitored who received said uniforms but due to lack of time, distribution was done on site,” Manadong explained.
City Mayor Alfred Romualdez also confirmed that he did not also receive any EVRAA uniform.
“I was also not given any uniform, but I did not complain. The uniforms were for the athletes and officials,” Mayor Romualdez said.
Another issue that Manadong wanted to make clear is about the quality of sports materials purchased.
He said that based on R.A. 9184 also known as Government Procurement Reform Act, requisitioning offices are prohibited to put particular “brands” on the procurement request.
“This is to give chance to other suppliers to participate in the bidding process,” Manadong further explained.
Moreover, he also said that if there were complaints it should have been forwarded to the City Procurement Office as the proper office to address complaints. If we received the complaint earlier, we could have stop the processing of payment to the dealer.
He also said that the end user or the inspectors should have submitted the complaints when they found the items to be of lesser quality.
“The complaint is very important because this is our bases to take the necessary action,” he said.
Manadong also wondered why the complaint reached the City Legislative Council and not their office.
“Mayor Alfred Romualdez already gave instructions to look deeper into the matter and conduct investigation on how true the allegations were. He also advised the end-users to have advanced planning next time so mistakes will not be repeated,” Manadong quipped. (NOEL SEVILLANO TALACAY)
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