Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman has rejected anew calls for the abolition of the Procurement Service under her agency,citing its importance
Pangandaman said the unit has a critical role in government purchases of common supplies under the proposed amendments to the procurement law.
“Usually the smaller agencies buy common-use items. So if they are available from the PS-DBM, our central procurement agency, they can buy it directly there,”Pangandaman told reporters. The PS-DBM was created on October 18, 1978 “to establish an integrated procurement system for the national government to take advantage of economies-of-scale in procurement,” according to Senate Bill 2388 filed by Sen. Imee Marcos.
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