Gov’t says supply deal for rail project attracted lone bid

ONLY ONE PARTY, the joint venture of Sumitomo Corp. and Japan Transport Engineering Co. (J-Trec), submitted a bid for the contract to provide train sets for the Japan-funded North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project, the Transportation department said Monday.

The department made the announcement after a live-streamed bid opening Monday.

“Next will be the evaluation of the submitted bid,” Transportation Assistant Secretary Goddes Hope O. Libiran told BusinessWorld in a phone message.

She said the awarding of the contract is targeted for June.

The Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management started issuing bid documents on Sept. 15.

The contract covers the manufacture of 38 eight-car train sets. The contractor will also be required to provide technical support for the train sets.

The bid was to be accompanied by a bid security of one billion yen.

The Sumitomo-J-Trec joint venture signed a contract with the Transportation department to provide 240 train cars for the first phase of the Metro Manila Subway project.

The Japanese joint venture was also awarded in July 2019 the contract to provide 104 train cars for the Malolos-Tutuban segment of the North-South Commuter Railway project.

Sumitomo is one of the maintenance service providers of Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3), along with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. and TES Philippines, Inc. — Arjay L. Balinbin

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Housing beneficiaries to be carefully identified

The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) said it has been proactively working with partner-organizations to ensure that only legitimate beneficiaries would receive government housing units.

In a statement over the weekend, DHSUD Secretary Eduardo Del Rosario urged key shelter agencies, local government units and other partner-organizations to strictly follow the implementing guidelines and criteria in beneficiary identification and selection.

“I am calling on our partner-stakeholders to proactively observe the prescribed process and criteria in identifying our housing project beneficiaries so that only those who are truly affected are given assistance,” Del Rosario said.

The Social Housing Finance Corp. (SHFC), in partnership with the Philippine National Railways, Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor, Department of Transportation, local government of Biñan, and the Beneficiary Selection, Awards and Arbitration Committee (BSAAC) of the Local Inter-Agency Committee for the North-South Commuter Railway Extension (NSCREx) Project recently held a workshop to discuss the process of BSAAC deliberation to prevent illegal occupancies.

The workshop also revisited the process and criteria for the deliberation of project affected persons (PAP) under the NSCREx.

It started in 2018 by conducting census among the PAPs in the area, followed by a pre-qualification validation in 2019.

Community assemblies were completed last year.

DHSUD said the deliberation process will start this year after the conduct area inspection by SHFC.

Implementing agencies are streamlining the qualification requirements upon review of the situational assessment report.

“Despite the pandemic, we will work on enhancing further our capacities to implement our projects in the most effective and efficient way. Now more than ever, the Filipino dwellers are counting on the integrity of our selection process with accurate results,” Del Rosario said.

https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/02/08/business/business-top/housing-beneficiaries-to-be-carefully-identified/838028/

‘Only legit beneficiaries should get houses’

The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development is pro-actively working with partner-organizations to ensure that only legitimate beneficiaries receive government housing units.

As the government’s primary agency task to provide decent and affordable housing, DHSUD has been actively capacitating partners in the selection process of housing beneficiaries, through sustained engagements.

Secretary Eduardo del Rosario is encouraging the key shelter agencies, local government units and other partner-organizations to strictly follow the implementing guidelines and criteria in beneficiary identification and selection.

“I am calling on our partner-stakeholders to pro-actively observe the prescribed process and criteria in identifying our housing project beneficiaries so that only those who are truly affected are given assistance,” he said.

In a recent workshop led by the Social Housing Finance Corp. in partnership with the Philippine National Railways, Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor, Department of Transportation and the local government of Biñan, Laguna, the Beneficiary Selection, Awards and Arbitration Committee of the Local Inter-Agency Committee for the North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project discussed the process of BSAAC deliberation to prevent illegal occupancies.

The workshop revisited the process and criteria for the deliberation of project affected persons  under the NSCREx.   

It started in 2018 conducting a census among the PAPs in the area and followed by a pre-qualification validation in 2019.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, community assemblies have been completed in 2020.

The deliberation process would start this year after the conduct of area inspection by SHFC.

The implementing agencies are adopting additional measures to further streamline the qualification requirements upon review of the situational assessment report.

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