Procedure for the procurement of consulting service - DOH

DOH CUSTOMIZED PROCUREMENT MANUAL VOLUME 4 2010
TYPES OF CONSULTING SERVICES
1. LEGAL REFERENCE
Consulting services is divided into six (6) broad categories (Annex “B” of the revised IRR).
2. CONSULTING SERVICES DEFINED
Section 5.i of the revised IRR of R.A. 9184, the Government Procurement Reform Act of 2003,
defined consulting service as services for infrastructure projects and other types of projects or
activities of the GOP requiring adequate external technical and professional expertise that are
beyond the capability and/or capacity of the GOP to undertake such as, but not limited to: (I)
advisory and review services; (ii) pre-investment or feasibility studies; (iii) design; (iv) construction
supervision; (v) management and related services; and (vi) other technical services or special
studies. General principles on consulting services are provided for in Annex “B” of the revised IRR.
3. TYPES OF CONSULTING SERVICE
Annex B of the revised IRR provides the six (6) broad categories of consulting services, namely:
(a) advisory and review services; (b) pre-investment or feasibility studies; (c) design; (d)
construction supervision; (e) management and related services; and (f) other technical services or
special studies. These consulting services are the following:
3.1 ADVISORY AND REVIEW SERVICES
These services consist of the review and the provision of advice on particular projects or
problems. These include planning, system and implementation design, financial, fiscal,
legal and other professional services, as well as management, production, inspection,
testing and quality control. They also include such services as appearances before
commissions, boards or other judicial bodies to give evidence or otherwise submit
professional opinions.
3.2 PRE-INVESTMENT OR FEASIBILITY STUDIES
These are the studies which normally precede decisions to go (or not to go) forward with
specific projects. These studies may have as their objectives:
a. To establish investment priorities and sector policies - studies conducted for this
objective include basic resource inventories, such as, river basin surveys,
transport sector surveys, and studies of alternative development patterns and of
sectors on a regional or nationwide scale;
b. To determine the basic features and the feasibility of individual projects - studies
toward this objective include functional designs, project site selections,
architectural and space programming and physical layout of specific projects,
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