Question & AnswerQ&A (PCAB Board Resolution No. 047, series of 2015)
The main purpose is to amend Board Resolution No. 365, s. 2014 to allow the filing of special license applications less than five (5) working days but at least one (1) day before the bidding or negotiation date, subject to an Additional Processing Fee (APF).
The original requirement was that all applicants for special licenses must file their applications at least five (5) working days before the bidding or negotiation date.
The legal basis is Sec. 38 of R.A. No. 4566 and Sec. 10.3 of its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), which require joint ventures and consortia to have the requisite special license at the time of bidding or negotiation.
The APF ranges from PHP 10,000.00 for Small A & B registration size to PHP 25,000.00 for Large B registration size, with specific fees as follows: Large B - PHP 25,000; Large A - PHP 20,000; Medium A and B - PHP 15,000; Small A & B - PHP 10,000.
No, legal holidays before the date of bidding or negotiation are excluded from the count of the five (5) working days.
No, the Additional Processing Fee (APF) is non-refundable.
The resolution took effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in a newspaper of general circulation.
The resolution was unanimously approved and signed by the PCAB Chairman Pericles P. Dakay, Ph.D., Member Farouk M. Macarambon, Sr., Officer-in-Charge Atty. Alejandria G. Gomez, and Board Secretary Sergie T. Retome.
Because special license applications filed less than five (5) working days before bidding or negotiation impose a heavy administrative toll on the PCAB, warranting the imposition of an additional fee to cover extra processing efforts.