Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman strongly supports the full digitalization of the public procurement process being undertaken by the Procurement Service (PS)-DBM to ensure transparency and generate savings.

According to Secretary Pangandaman, the PS-DBM is currently implementing an extensive reform agenda, with a focus on thorough procurement procedures.

“𝐼𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅. 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑠 𝐽𝑟.’𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 8-𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝐴𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑆-𝐷𝐵𝑀 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠,” Secretary Pangandaman emphasized.

PS-DBM Executive Director Dennis Santiago recently met with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) representatives to discuss full procurement digitalization and analytics, two strategic priorities in the development of a comprehensive acquisition process to strengthen the PS-DBM’s integrity as the government’s central purchaser.

The meeting was held in preparation for UNDP’s Country Programme for 2024-2028.

The procurement process, widely seen as the most daunting bottleneck in budget utilization due to alleged rampant corruption, interpretational ambiguities, and a lackluster capability to carry out procurement tasks within government agencies, causes service delivery delays.