BCDA says P3.5M for PR, but not because of crisis
By Tonette Orejas -- Inquirer
CLARK SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE—The Bases Conversion Development Authority has allotted P3.5 million for corporate communications.
The state-owned agency, which is now defending its controversial takeover of Poro Point seaport, however said the money was for the services of a PR consultant, not for crisis management.
“The ongoing bidding is for its regular corporate communications requirement,” the BCDA said in a statement to the Inquirer on Thursday.
It said the public relations budget is being taken from the regular annual corporate operating funds since 1996.
The Aug. 19 bid invitation, it said, has been the third posted since March this year.
The two biddings “failed” because of the noncompliance by prospective bidders with the required eligibility documents.
The first bid notice was posted on March 6 and the second, on April 21, the agency’s website showed.
The BCDA statement assured that the bidding is “being undertaken with utmost integrity and transparency as it strictly adheres to the government’s procurement law.”
The latest bid notice, posted on the agency’s website on Aug. 19, came following court cases filed by Poro Point Industrial Corp. against the Aug. 5 takeover of the Poro Point seaport in La Union by the BCDA.
On Aug. 24, the Concerned Central Luzon Contractors wrote the Inquirer to bare the alleged collection of “advance commissions” allegedly by Rex Chan, BCDA vice president for operations, for non-existent subcontracts in the P21-billion Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway Project in Bataan, Pampanga and Tarlac.
Chan denied the charges, saying his accusers were trying to malign him and wanted him out of the BCDA.
CLARK SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE—The Bases Conversion Development Authority has allotted P3.5 million for corporate communications.
The state-owned agency, which is now defending its controversial takeover of Poro Point seaport, however said the money was for the services of a PR consultant, not for crisis management.
“The ongoing bidding is for its regular corporate communications requirement,” the BCDA said in a statement to the Inquirer on Thursday.
It said the public relations budget is being taken from the regular annual corporate operating funds since 1996.
The Aug. 19 bid invitation, it said, has been the third posted since March this year.
The two biddings “failed” because of the noncompliance by prospective bidders with the required eligibility documents.
The first bid notice was posted on March 6 and the second, on April 21, the agency’s website showed.
The BCDA statement assured that the bidding is “being undertaken with utmost integrity and transparency as it strictly adheres to the government’s procurement law.”
The latest bid notice, posted on the agency’s website on Aug. 19, came following court cases filed by Poro Point Industrial Corp. against the Aug. 5 takeover of the Poro Point seaport in La Union by the BCDA.
On Aug. 24, the Concerned Central Luzon Contractors wrote the Inquirer to bare the alleged collection of “advance commissions” allegedly by Rex Chan, BCDA vice president for operations, for non-existent subcontracts in the P21-billion Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway Project in Bataan, Pampanga and Tarlac.
Chan denied the charges, saying his accusers were trying to malign him and wanted him out of the BCDA.
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