USTDA Partners with the Philippines to Promote Value in Procurement
September 1, 2015
(USTDA)
MANILA, Philippines – Today, the U.S. Trade and
Development Agency, in cooperation with the
Philippine Government Procurement Policy
Board’s Technical Support Office (GPPB-TSO),
kicked off a three-day procurement workshop
under USTDA’s Global Procurement Initiative:
Understanding Best Value (GPI). As part of the
GPI Procurement Assistance Program, USTDA will
provide training and technical assistance to
help the Philippine government incorporate
life-cycle cost analysis and value for money
elements into its procurement practices, which
will help increase international competition
and facilitate improved procurement outcomes
for infrastructure projects in the
Philippines.
“This program is an invaluable step in
strengthening economic cooperation between the
United States and the Philippines,” said
Michael Klecheski, Deputy Chief of Mission of
the U.S. Embassy, Manila. “The program
supports all the efforts of the Government of
the Philippines to promote transparency and
good governance, with the overarching goal of
obtaining the best value and quality for
government funds.”
“As the Philippine economy further accelerates,
it becomes even more crucial for government to
work efficiently to support the country’s
growth,” stated GPPB-TSO Director Dennis S.
Santiago. “This workshop not only represents
further efforts to reform public procurement in
the Philippines – it also reflects the
government’s purpose of bringing more
efficiency to public transactions. Through
this program, we can fine-tune existing
procurement practices and make them more
responsive to the needs of the larger
bureaucracy and the ordinary Filipino.”
The three-day workshop, which was developed in
collaboration with GPPB-TSO, is providing
training to 50 public procurement officials
from GPPB-TSO and other Philippine government
departments. Led by USTDA, the workshop will
include sessions taught by the George
Washington University Law School’s Government
Procurement Law Program and technical
specialists in the transportation sector. It
will focus on how to obtain the best value for
the Government of the Philippines in civil
works by incorporating tools such as life-cycle
cost analyses, total cost of ownership and
savings over time into its procurement
practices.
The Procurement Assistance Program will advance
the Government of the Philippines’ 2016 agenda
to reform public procurement and increase
infrastructure spending. It also supports
USTDA’s goal of leveling the playing field for
U.S. companies seeking to compete in
large-scale infrastructure tenders around the
world.
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