Procedure for the procurement of consulting service - DOH

MANUAL PROCEDURES FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF CONSULTING SERVICES
A. PROCUREMENT PLANNING
1. LEGAL REFERENCE
Section 7 of the revised IRR provides the legal reference for procurement planning.
Planning of the procurement of goods and services shall be in accordance with the principles of
government procurement as provided for under Section 3 Volume I.
2. PURPOSE
Procurement planning is one of the key components of procurement reforms given that some of
problems in logistics management are traced from inefficient procurement planning. Wellplanned
procurements have significant impacts on lowering procurement costs, generating
substantial saving, and ensuring that the right quality goods and services are available at service
delivery points including limiting unnecessary wastages.
Each DOH Procuring Entity needs to sensibly, thoughtfully and prudently plan their procurements
annually. Planning is undertaken to ensure wise and judicious use of limited financial resources
and to purchase and have these goods, services and works on the time that these are needed.
Moreover, procurement plans allows integration with health plans and targets, and permits
efficient matching of resources to expected health outputs and outcomes including monitoring of
physical and financial performance.
Operationally, the Procurement Plan allows early arrangement of procurement and related
activities. These include procurement scheduling, cash allocation and expenditure management,
projection of deliveries, warehouse space allocation and distribution to health facilities among
others. End-user units namely Bureaus/Centers, Services, Programs, Divisions, Departments and
shall prepare their PPMPs and submit this to the concerned BAC Secretariat for consolidation and
production of the DOH Procuring Entity‟s APP.
The purpose of procurement planning is for the Procuring Entity to schedule its procurement
activities in advance, along with the projects of concessionaires funded under loans in the name of
Procuring Entity, consistent with the agency‟s annual procurement plan. The planning stage, the
following activities shall be undertaken, among others:
Preparation of the draft terms of reference by the end user.
Determination of the mode of procurement
Type of consultant (e.g. individual or firm, local or foreign)
Determination of the ABC
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