Published December 13, 2017, 10:00
PM By Myrna
M. Velasco
The Department of Energy (DOE) is
sorting out a policy prescription that will institutionalize the creation of a
five-man third party to oversee the auction processes on power supply
contracting of the distribution utilities.
Under the DOE-drafted modified
Competitive Selection Process (CSP) framework of DU power supply contracting
for its captive customers, the plan is to have that third party comprise of
people from various disciplines, one of which will be from the legal
profession.
It has been stipulated in the
DOE-proposed rules that the board of directors of the DU shall establish the
propounded third party bids and awards committee (TPBAC) that will then
“spearhead and manage the CSP.”
Aside from a lawyer, the others to
constitute the TPBAC should be a finance officer or an accountant; two officers
of the concerned DU and one DU officer or employee knowledgeable in procurement
rules, including international competitive bidding procedures.
“The Board of Directors of the DU
shall serve as observer and not as member of the third party bids and awards
committee,” the DOE draft rules emphasized.
In a media briefing with Energy
Senior Undersecretary Jesus Cristino P. Posadas, he qualified that the third
party body is still not limited to this option, but they are also giving prime
consideration to have it placed under the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation
(PEMC) – at least to align it with the pending CSP Bill of Senate Committee on
Energy Chairman Sherwin T. Gatchalian.
But he noted that they would want
that third party to police power supply procurement to avoid previous practices
of just having the CSP scheme done through “price matching” processes.
“We are looking for the
disinterested party that will do it, we’re looking at the best way of doing
it,” the energy official said.
In the previous CSP edict, any
scheme of bidding was accepted; and processes had just been leaning on the
preferences of DUs at that time.
In the rules rectification, Posadas
stated that the DOE will set off the policy guide – even in demand aggregation
for the supply contract to be procured, so that the DUs would no longer resort
to procedures that may be perceived as ‘sweetheart deals’.
“We are going to implement a more
objective form of sourcing electricity for DUs… say, in a particular given
area, we also need to look for ways on how to scale up demand so they could
attract good offers,” he stressed.
The energy official further noted
that the department will likely be firming up a written policy prescription or
Circular on this policy direction around first quarter of next year.
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