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DEPARTMENT of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon on Monday said the agency will immediately move to blacklist erring contractors from government contracts and study the possibility of perpetually revoking their licenses, in line with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.\u2019s directive to clean up irregularities in public works projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAng mga contractor nitong mga ghost project na ito, unang-una, mag-i-impose po ako ng lifetime blacklisting, ban immediately,\u201d Dizon announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dizon said there would be no more need for the DPWH to conduct a prolonged investigation once a project has been confirmed to be non-existent or substandard.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cKapag ang isang project ng isang contractor ay ghost o napatunayang substandard, wala na po itong proseso, wala ng imbestigasyon. Automatic po blacklisted for life ang contractor na iyan. At siyempre may kaakibat din pong kaso iyan,\u201d said Dizon.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dizon said the DPWH will submit all its findings to the independent body to be created by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to investigate DPWH projects tainted by corruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cApart from yung blacklisting, pati iyong lisensya, pwede din po yan irevoke,\u201d Dizon said in a Palace press briefing when asked if perpetual disqualification of contractors\u2019 licenses was part of his first order of business.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The new DPWH Secretary explained that reforms must go beyond blacklisting, stressing the need to overhaul processes within the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cKaya kailangan po talaga natin marepaso at ma-revamp itong PCAB. Kasi iyan po ang body na gumagawa niyan lahat,\u201d he said, referring to the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dizon added that he would discuss the matter with Trade and Industry Secretary Cristina Roque.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the DPWH chief, the agency can act on blacklisting and disqualification, while license revocation requires further measures.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMag-uumpisa po tayo sa blacklisting, disqualification, kasi yan po ay pwedeng gawin ng DPWH lang,\u201d Dizon said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPero iyong pagtatanggal ng lisensiya at perpetual\u2013 since nasanay na rin naman po ako magtanggal ng mga lisensiya ng mga driver, siguro magtatanggal na rin tayo ng lisensiya ng mga contractor,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dizon\u2019s marching orders from President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. complements the President\u2019s earlier announcement about soon establishing an independent commission tasked with investigating and recommending actions on irregularities in public projects, particularly within the DPWH.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DEPARTMENT of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon on Monday said the agency will immediately move to blacklist erring contractors from government contracts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16116,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114\/revisions\/16116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}