Duterte signs order fast tracking military procurement

From Update Philippines (Apr 17): Duterte signs order fast tracking military procurement

President Rodrigo Duterte issued Executive Order 18, s. 2017 to fast track procurement projects of the Department of National Defense (DND) for Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization, and other projects for DND attached agencies like Office of Civil Defense, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office.

The order, repealing former President Gloria Arroyo’s EO 235, s. 2003, was signed April 7. “Except for contracts required by law to be acted upon and/or approved by the President, the Secretary of National Defense shall have the authority to sign and/or approve Government contracts of the Department of National Defense and any of its bureaus, offices or agencies, before the Government contract shall be considered approved in accordance with law and binding on the Government: Provided, however, that the Secretary of National Defense may delegate in writing to appropriate officials, subject to appropriate ceilings, this authority to sign and/or approve a Government contract below Fifty Million Pesos (P50 Million), as he sees fit under the circumstances: Provided, further, that for Government contracts of the Armed Forces of the Philippines involving an amount below Fifty Million Pesos (50 Million), the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines shall have full authority to sign the same,” said in Arroyo’s EO.

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