PLM, GPPB-TSO to offer public procurement specialist course

Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) President Dr. Ma. Leonora V. de Jesus and Secretary of Budget and Management Benjamin E. Diokno jointly signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the conduct of a training program on procurement systems and procedures. The program, which shall be jointly offered by PLM and the Government Procurement Policy Board Technical Support Office (GPPB-TSO), through its Technical Support Office or GPPB-TSO, aims to professionalize and train Bids and Awards Committees (BACs), the BAC Secretariats and the Technical Working Groups of procuring entities in the proper implementation of procurement rules and regulations. Under the MoA, PLM will open the certificate course in three levels and modules — basic, intermediate and advanced. In photo (L-R) are PLM Board Chairman Benjamin Espiritu, PLM EVP Joe Silerio, Ms. De Jesus, Mr. Diokno, GPPB-TSO Executive Director Atty. Dennis Santiago, and GPPB-TSO Deputy Executive Director IV Melissa Santiago-Yan.