CLARIFICATION OF PhP 3.9 million worth of mobile phones and tablets
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) wishes to expand that the procurement of PhP3.9 million worth of mobile phones and tablets, tagged by the Commission on Audit (COA) in its version as expensive, actually spanned a three-year procurement grow prehistoric, starting CY 2015 until CY 2018, following most of the devices bought in 2015 past the behave-skirmish administration took office.
Three-year procurement period
The procurement was initiated by the former Regional Director of the National Capital Region (NCR) in CY 2015, for a quantity of forty-one (41) cellular phones and twenty-two (22) tablets.
Twenty-four (24) of these cellular phones and twenty-two (22) tablets were purchased by the LTO-NCR in 2015.
In 2016, unconventional six (6) cellular phones were purchased, even if in 2017, eleven (11) were procured by the LTO-NCR. All cellular phones were assigned to LTO-NCR officials, as soon as their respective Property Accountability Receipt (PAR).
Procurement necessary for communication and coordination
The procurement is necessary in the efficient supervision of the LTOs functions by allowing for improved and more dependable modes of communication and coordination, such as tele-conferencing and added internet-operated applications such as Viber and emails, which are otherwise inaccessible to older models of communication devices.
Further, the LTO-NCR clarifies that it has not issued any prepaid load to officers and personnel in the last two years. Communications expenses are creature charged neighboring to the personal funds of the employees.
For Region IV-A, the reported quantity amount of PhP660,769.92 for 2018 in the COA defense, or an average amount of PhP55,064.16 per month, was for twenty-six (26) extra-paid cellular phones for the Regions officials.
The amount translates to PhP2,117.85 per cellular phone, which is a reasonably priced amount following the bulk of transactions in Region IV-A, and the need for a honorable and short relationship to rapidly utter and communicate in this rapid-changing digital age.
No COA disallowance
The LTO wishes to underscore that there was no COA disallowance issued upon the procurement of these cellular phones and tablets.
Fully uphill to date of its chronicles, the agency knocked out the Duterte administration has been most careful in its utilization of funds. Measures have been implemented to ensure judicious and prudent use of taxpayers maintenance and added running resources, especially for communication purposes.
At power, the LTO has already substantially complied when the COAs recommendations in the Audit Observation Memorandum re the distribution of communications equipment and cellular load.
The agency subsidiary emphasized that its depth giving out has complied as soon as COAs recommendation to present a specific valid authority for the succession as soon as than more of proclamation-paid plans. The LTO Central Office issued the said authority through LTO Memorandum Order No. 2019-001, or the General Guidelines upon the Amount of Communication for LTO Officials and Employees, signed by Assistant Secretary Edgar C. Galvante. This memorandum order specifies the distribution, load allocation/limits, and use of cellular phones.
The LTO is in constant dialogue considering COA, and is retrieve to innovation recommended behavior, should there be any.
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