tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787680058893080901.post8287265589956937053..comments2023-05-18T19:27:25.374+08:00Comments on Patungo sa Kaayaayang Pilipinas: Villar vows to raise budget for AFP modernizationkaaya-ayang pilipinashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079585466607411247noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787680058893080901.post-50644936240366129852010-08-06T22:28:49.279+08:002010-08-06T22:28:49.279+08:00AFP SCAMS: SWINDLERS, PLUNDERERS AND TAX EVADERS I...AFP SCAMS: SWINDLERS, PLUNDERERS AND TAX EVADERS In the AFP Modernization Program<br /><br />The Project/s: AFP CAPABILITY UPGRADE PROGRAM (CUP) Communications Equipment Offered by Israel - The Armed Forces of the Philippines Fixed Communications System<br /><br />Request for Investigation / Report on AFP Anomalies: This is NOT part of the so-called Midnight Deal, but should be included in the AFP DND investigation because this is now "due for payment to suppliers." During the Arroyo administration, the "civilians" were appointed in AFP DND to handle the procurement. Unfortunately, these "civilians" who were expected to exercise "a level playing field" were the ones caught in the act violating the RA 9184 and IRR; they were even the Number One violators of their so-caled "follow the rule of law"; such massive irregularities in the bidding process grossly disadvantageous to the Philippine Government. PLEASE SCRUTINIZE THEIR DOCUMENTS AND YOU WILL FIND THAT THE WINNERS HAVE COMMITTED FRAUD AND PROVIDED MISLEADING INFORMATIONS. DND BAC proclaimed a Winner by Fraud (DID NOT participate the bidding !).<br /><br />A Fraudulent Joint-Venture Agreement "JVA" FIASCO !<br /><br />Disguising corruption: The suppliers/agents/lobbyists, and other third-party representatives designed a SHAM joint venture with an Israel vendor shortly after the entire bidding was carried out (one partner of the JV, DID NOT even participate the bidding process) and the agents are then seen using PLM foundations to disguise the sources of illegally obtained funds and to hide bribery and unexplained bank deposits to pay bribes and evade taxes; to hide off-the-book accounts and other accounting irregularities; the PLM foundations as repositories of the ill-gotten wealth.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />DEAR PRESIDENT NOYNOY AQUINO<br /> <br />You said in your well-applauded inaugural address on June 30 "We will fight corruption (also, in AFP, you will scrutinize the controverial biddings in the AFP Modernization Program undertaken by DND BAC, review the Conduct of Bidding Process, Notice of Awards and Contracts)," and said so that we, the Filipino people, can bring our concerns to you directly because, borrowing your own words, we are "your boss." May we report to you the current Issues the MASSIVE BIDDING & AWARDING IRREGULARITIES in the utilization of the AFP Funds- the AFP Modernization Program Fixed Communication System Projects which is now DUE FOR PAYMENT TO THE SUPPLIERS: The DND BAC awarded the contract to suppliers with a "defective" JVA (Joint Venture Agreement). Defective because aside from the fact that Datatrail Corporation did not participate the bidding and no eligibility documents, there are traces of influence peddlings, treacherous collusion among suppliers and obvious railroading of the AFP projects to favored suppliers under this defective fraudulent JVA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787680058893080901.post-4777138043187977732010-08-06T22:20:56.316+08:002010-08-06T22:20:56.316+08:00You are again misleading the Public and the Philip...You are again misleading the Public and the Philippine Government. Since your Company DATATRAIL CORPORATION did not participate the 1ST STAGE Bidding, the ELIGIBILITY STAGE, your best CHANCE to present your legal documents to become eligible to Bid so we could recognize you as ONE OF THE QUALIFIED BIDDERS, you just refused and still CONTINUE TO REFUSE to present your Eligibility Documents. Niligaw po ninyo yung mga Signatories na binanggit ninyo. Also, please follow the rule of law the latest RA 9184 and IRR on JVA published early 2005. Since you DID NOT participate the 1ST STAGE BIDDING which is the MOST IMPORTANT STAGE BECAUSE IT IS THERE WHERE WE CAN SEE IF YOUR COMPANY, DATATRAIL CORPORATION IS PAYING THE RIGHT TAXES and TO SEE YOUR QUALIFICATION HISTORY, wala po kayong pinakitang kahit anong documents. Again, Datatrail Corporation DID NOT participate the 1ST STAGE Bidding. This is highly illegal and criminal offense on your part as a Contractor, obviously THIS BIDDING AND AWARDING OF CONTRACT WAS TAINTED WITH GRAFT AND CORRUPTION. <br /><br />And So, the public may know !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787680058893080901.post-61683873413791480432010-08-06T17:06:45.757+08:002010-08-06T17:06:45.757+08:00It is truly unfair for this ‘Anonymous’ to besmirc...It is truly unfair for this ‘Anonymous’ to besmirch their good names while hiding behind the unaccountability and anonymity of bloodspots and internet sites.<br />This ‘Anonymous’ may actually be a low level employee of a losing bidder, judging by the bevy of faulty syntax and grammar in his account, or is in fact a high level executive of a losing bidder who is hiding behind a cloak of flawed grammar, and who probably lost his job as a result of the extravagant expense account that he racked up in the years previous to the bidding of the AFP-FCS, and whose ‘old boy’s club’ was side swiped by the reforms instituted by Sec Avelino Cruz and Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro at the DND in the aftermath of the massive graft perpetuated by the former AFP Comptroller, Major General Carlos F. Garcia.<br />Every meeting of the AFP-FCS BAC Committee were attended by representatives/observers from the COA, DBM, NEDA, BSP, PCCI, the Makati Business Club, Philippine Bar Association, and other<br />interested organizations. <br />Our lasting impression, as participants and bidders in these meetings, is that the AFP-FCS BAC during the time of Sec Avelino Cruz, trailblazed a then unheard of policy of transparency at the AFP. This was continued during the term of Sec Gilbert Teodoro as DND secretary.<br />The account being foisted by this ‘Anonymous’ is downright libelous. <br />He must present himself in the proper legal forum, with a sworn statement and complaint, to enable the parties whose reputations he maligns in internet forums such as this, to file the appropriate charges against him.<br />In retrospection, can we believe that the representatives of COA, DBM, NEDA, BSP, PCCI, the Makati Business Club, Philippine Bar Association, and other<br />interested organizations who have been invited, and were present, during ALL the AFP-FCS BAC meetings, opted to remain silent while the bidding for the AFP-FCS is being railroaded in favor of a particular bidder?<br />In hindsight, can we really believe that the representatives of LUCENT, ALCATEL, and NERA, sat meekly and idly by while their years of preparation for the bidding of AFP-FCS is unjustly taken away by the AFP-FCS BAC? <br />In retrospection, can we believe that the representatives of LUCENT, ALCATEL, and NERA, meekly accepted illegal decisions of the AFP-FCS?<br />In fairness to all parties concerned, winning and losing bidders alike, and to the names that are being maliciously maligned by this ‘anonymous’ some relevant factual and historical highlights are presented hereunder:Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787680058893080901.post-39328383904839813512010-08-06T17:05:59.435+08:002010-08-06T17:05:59.435+08:00Who is this Anonymous ? He morphs into many differ...Who is this Anonymous ? He morphs into many different names, in other blog sites related to President Noy and Mar Roxas, posting the same malicious account regarding the bid process of the AFP-FCS.<br />I am a person who is very familiar with events and circumstances surrounding the conduct of the bid and the award of the contract as my company initially participated in the bid process for the AFP FCS. There were however, failure of bids along the way, and my company decided to no longer participate in the succeeding bid attempts.<br />However, we followed the events and circumstances with great interest as our product line is indispensable to the implementation of the AFP FCS and the winning bidder, whoever, it may eventually be, will have to purchase some of the equipment from us.<br />As it turned out, several of the bidders did in fact reflected some items in our product portfolio, in the bid documents that they submitted.<br /> <br />But what are the real facts about the AFP-FCS?<br />The names that were mentioned, USEC JOSE F SANTOS, VADM ARISTON V DELOS REYES, USEC FRANCISCO F DEL ROSARIO, ASEC JOSE N FERRER & ASEC OTHELO C. CARAG, were men of integrity and probity.<br />They were, during their respective tenure of services at the government and the private sector, highly regarded and well spoken of.<br />As a result, the bid was awarded at a price of P388 Million. This bid is lower by P60 Million Pesos compared to the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC).<br />Likewise, the contract awarded to the winning bidder was P42 Million lower than the next lowest bid.<br />This Anonymous Sender is probably sourgraping because had their malevolent plans not been thwarted by the transparency of the bidding for the AFP-FCS, the winning bid would have been awarded at a price that is a few thousand pesos lower than the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) for the AFP-FCS.<br />A review of all the contracts awarded at the AFP, since time immemorial, had always hovered at only a few thousand pesos below the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC).<br />This was changed during the time of Secretary Avelino Cruz, and trailblazed and punctuated by the bidding process for the AFP-FCS, where the contract was awarded at a bid lower by P60 Million compared to the ABC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787680058893080901.post-67815206175092756202010-03-13T06:59:42.466+08:002010-03-13T06:59:42.466+08:00Bid Rigging in AFP Modernization Program
Syndica...Bid Rigging in AFP Modernization Program<br /> <br />Syndicated Estafa: Favored Supplier Bags AFP Contract Without Documents; Massive Irregularities In the Bidding Process And With Defective JVA<br /> <br />FRAUD COMPLAINT: AN OPEN LETTER TO DND-BAC, AFP, COMMISSION ON AUDIT, BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE AND THE OMBUDSMAN<br /> <br />The Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Program (AFPMP)<br /> <br />AFP-Wide Support and Separate Unit (AFPWSSU) Budget is P10.616-B in 15 years !<br /><br />Contract Ref. No. AFP Fixed Communication System (FCS) Project, Project Nr AFPMP-GHQ-09-001-04.<br /> <br /><br />DND BAC biased towards a supplier who did not participate the Stage 1 and 2 bidding process ended up as the winner bagging the AFP FCS project, the PhP 447,360,000.00 being the Approved Budget for the Contract.<br /><br />The AFP FCS bidding held between Y2005 and Y2006 is nothing but a hoax.<br /> <br />Former Sec. Gilbert Teodoro, recently signed approved the awarding of the contract to a privately-owned Filipino corporation called Datatrail, a supplier highly regarded by the genuine bidders simply as an 'Order taker', bagging the project illegally. The DND-BAC in question were the appointees of former Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. between 2004 and 2006, concurrent with his term of office as DND Chief.<br /> <br />Issues of favoratism were raised by the bidders against the DND BAC for the questionable awarding of contract to an 'Outsider' with defective JVA, supplier Datatrail (regarded as an outsider because Datatrail did not participate any of the bidding stages 1 & 2).<br /><br />The bidders and everyone in the room including the watchers all knew that Datatrail did not participate the bidding process Stage 1 and 2: Datatrail did not submit any Eligibility Documents, no original income tax stamped 'Received' by the BIR, etc. So, how could they win ?<br /> <br />This is again, Datatrail's template in the works after their Bureau of Immigration ID Scam in 2005, leaving everyone in the dark.<br /><br />AGENCY INVOLVED : DND BAC 2005-2006<br />DND - BAC CHAIRMAN USEC JOSE F SANTOS<br />VICE CHAIRMAN VADM ARISTON V DELOS REYES AFP<br />BAC MEMBERS USEC FRANCISCO F DEL ROSARIO, ASEC JOSE N FERRER & ASEC OTHELO C CARAG<br /> <br />The former DND BAC (2005-2006) have a lot explaining to do when they hastily awarded the contract to a supplier, Datatrail without the submission of Class 'A' Legal Documents vital to ensure a 'fair playing field.' The bidders wanted to see the papers of Datatrail if they were indeed eligible to bid in Y2005.<br /><br />The only thing that Datatrail presented to the DND BAC (after all the four biddders were shortlisted- Alcatel, Ceragon, Nera and Lucent rated 'Passed' the Stage 1 and Stage 2 bidding process), was a single piece of paper. It stated after the bidding stages 1 and 2, that supplier Datatrail was actually in Joint Venture Agreement with Ceragon.<br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787680058893080901.post-9821306313134060682010-03-13T06:50:14.448+08:002010-03-13T06:50:14.448+08:00Bid Rigging in AFP Modernization Program
Syndica...Bid Rigging in AFP Modernization Program<br /> <br />Syndicated Estafa: Favored Supplier Bags AFP Contract Without Documents; Massive Irregularities In the Bidding Process And With Defective JVA<br /> <br />FRAUD COMPLAINT: AN OPEN LETTER TO DND-BAC, AFP, COMMISSION ON AUDIT, BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE AND THE OMBUDSMAN<br /> <br />The Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Program (AFPMP)<br /> <br />AFP-Wide Support and Separate Unit (AFPWSSU) Budget is P10.616-B in 15 years !<br /><br />Contract Ref. No. AFP Fixed Communication System (FCS) Project, Project Nr AFPMP-GHQ-09-001-04.<br /> <br /><br />DND BAC biased towards a supplier who did not participate the Stage 1 and 2 bidding process ended up as the winner bagging the AFP FCS project, the PhP 447,360,000.00 being the Approved Budget for the Contract.<br /><br />The AFP FCS bidding held between Y2005 and Y2006 is nothing but a hoax.<br /> <br />Former Sec. Gilbert Teodoro, recently signed approved the awarding of the contract to a privately-owned Filipino corporation called Datatrail, a supplier highly regarded by the genuine bidders simply as an 'Order taker', bagging the project illegally. The DND-BAC in question were the appointees of former Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. between 2004 and 2006, concurrent with his term of office as DND Chief.<br /> <br />Issues of favoratism were raised by the bidders against the DND BAC for the questionable awarding of contract to an 'Outsider' with defective JVA, supplier Datatrail (regarded as an outsider because Datatrail did not participate any of the bidding stages 1 & 2).<br /><br />The bidders and everyone in the room including the watchers all knew that Datatrail did not participate the bidding process Stage 1 and 2: Datatrail did not submit any Eligibility Documents, no original income tax stamped 'Received' by the BIR, etc. So, how could they win ?<br /> <br />This is again, Datatrail's template in the works after their Bureau of Immigration ID Scam in 2005, leaving everyone in the dark.<br /><br />AGENCY INVOLVED : DND BAC 2005-2006<br />DND - BAC CHAIRMAN USEC JOSE F SANTOS<br />VICE CHAIRMAN VADM ARISTON V DELOS REYES AFP<br />BAC MEMBERS USEC FRANCISCO F DEL ROSARIO, ASEC JOSE N FERRER & ASEC OTHELO C CARAG<br /> .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com