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Binays face more graft raps for P1.3 billion Makati Science building 

August 4, 2017 by NewsLine Philippines Leave a Comment

MANILA, Philippines — Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has ordered the filing of multiple counts of Graft and Falsification charges against former Vice-President Jejomar Binay, Sr. and former Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay, Jr. for conspiring to rig the procurement processes of the P1.3billion Makati Science High School Building located along Kalayaan Avenue in Makati City.

The Makati Science Building project for a 10-storey building complete with a four-storey dormitory was completed merely as a 10-storey building.

In two separate Resolutions approved on 01 August 2017, Ombudsman Morales indicted Binay, Sr. with four counts of violation of Section 3(e) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act (Republic Act No. 3019) and three counts of Falsification of Public Documents.  Binay, Jr. is also set to face four counts of violation of Section 3(e) of R.A. No. 3019 and three counts of Falsification.

Standing as co-accused of the Binays are Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) Chairpersons Marjorie De Veyra and Eleno Mendoza, Jr.; BAC members Pio Kenneth Dasal, Lorenza Amores, Ulysess Orienza, Gerardo San Gabriel and Mario Badillo; BAC Secretariat members Giovanni Condes, Manolito Uyaco, Norman Flores and Ralph Liberato; Rodel Nayve of the BAC Technical Working Group; city accountants Leonila Querijero, Cecilio Lim III and Raydes Pestaño; and city cashier Nelia Barlis. Criminal raps were also ordered to be filed against contractors Virginia Garcia of Infiniti Architectural Works, together with Efren Canlas and Julius Ramos of Hilmarc’s Construction Corporation.

On 26 September 2007, then Mayor Binay, Sr. entered into a P17.37 million Architectural & Engineering (A & E) consultancy services contract with Infiniti for the design of the Makati Science Building.   Several irregularities were, however, noted in the procurement of the A&E consultancy services such as the unjustified resort to negotiated procurement instead of competitive bidding, non-compliance with the required posting of the invitation to bid, and several misrepresentations regarding the alleged bid negotiations, submission and opening of bids.

 

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The Ombudsman observed that the project “did not provide for a timeline or period within which the contractor must complete its services.”

Respondents claimed that seven companies were invited to submit proposals during a negotiation conference on 18 September 2007.

The meeting with the bidders lasted only for an hour following which the BAC decided to recommend the award to Infiniti. The next day, or on 19 September 2007, Binay Sr. awarded the contract for the A & E services to Infiniti.

Witnesses from two of the architectural firms which allegedly participated in the negotiation conference, however, executed affidavits denying that they joined the bid negotiations and submitted proposals for the project.

They also denied having consented to the use of the names of their companies. Investigators observed that all the six other purported bidders tendered bids in excess of the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) and that only Infiniti submitted a bid within the ABC.

After the A&E phase of the project, respondents rigged the procurement processes for the construction of the Makati Science Building which was divided into six phases (2008 to 2013), all of which were awarded to Hilmarc’s Construction at a total net cost of P1.33 billion.

This was made possible by respondents, acting in conspiracy, through the falsification of bidding documents, suppression of information to prospective bidders, and undue haste in the award of the contracts.

For phase 1 of the project, the chief operating officer of JBros Construction, an alleged bidder, submitted an affidavit to the Ombudsman “disowning the signatures appearing above the name on the bid documents” he purportedly submitted. Graft probers also uncovered that the alleged publications of the Invitation to Bid in phases 1, 2, 4 and 5 were fake. Certified true copies of the issues of Balita obtained from the National Library confirmed that no invitations to bid for the project were published in violation of procurement rules.

According to Ombudsman Morales, “Hilmarc’s was placed on higher footing than any potential bidders who, by lack of publication of the [invitation] in newspapers of general circulation and by the limited time of posting in the PhilGEPS, City’s website or conspicuous places, were deprived of sufficient chance to participate in the biddings.  In fact, no other bidder participated in the public biddings for phases 2, 4, 5 and 6.”

The Ombudsman also cited the utterly flawed procurement process followed by respondents “as at the time of the commencement of the bidding process for phase 1 on 05 December 2007, no architectural design and engineering plans were provided to prospective bidders to apprise them of the details of the construction to be made so that they could submit their bids.  The records are also bereft of a showing that there were completed architectural design and engineering plans before the publication of the invitation for phase 2.  This logically shows that the public biddings were nothing but a sham.”

In the related administrative case, the Ombudsman found Binay, Jr. guilty of Serious Dishonesty, Grave Misconduct and Conduct Prejudicial to the Best Interest of the Service and ordered his dismissal from the service which carries the accessory penalties of perpetual disqualification from public office, cancellation of eligibility, forfeiture of retirement benefits and bar from taking the civil service examination.  Also found administratively liable were Dasal, Amores, Badillo, Querijero, Barlis, Lim, Condes, Flores, Orienza, Uyaco, San Gabriel, Mendoza, Jr., Liberato and Pestaño.-www.ombudsman.gov.ph/Newsline.ph

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