Professionalizing Public Procurement practitioners.

The World Bank has extended to the Philippines government a new IDF grant (Institutional Development Fund) of US $ 300 T to support government's effort to establish a career path and certification program for public procurement practitioners.

The grant is given by World Bank in recognition of the Philippines concerted efforts in improving public procurement. It underscored such procurement milestones as the enactment and implementation of the GPRA (RA 9184); formulation of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR-A); establishment and operationalization of the GPPB; mandatory use of Electronic Procurement System; issuance of standard bidding document and forms; and more recently, the roll-out of the Generic Procurement Manuals.

The project to be financed by the grant will consist of two (2) parts: to provide technical assistance to the government in creating the career stream for public procurement practitioners; and support the development and roll-out of a complete public procurement and logistics training modules and certification program.

The project will be implemented by the GPPB and its Technical Support Office.