Invitation to Submit Proposal

The Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC) is inviting all interested suppliers for the provision of twelve (12) units brand new digital photocopying machines under Rental Scheme for three (3) years as specified in the Terms of Reference.
The bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary “pass/fail” criteria as specified in the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (R.A. 9184), otherwise known as the “Government Procurement Reform Act”.
The approved budget for the contract (ABC) is Five Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P568,500.00) for a minimum 55,000 copies per month, chargeable against Corporate Funds.
Bidding documents will be available and may be acquired during office hours starting October 8, 2015 until October 30, 2015 at the HGC BAC Secretariat, Administrative Department, 2nd Floor Jade Bldg., 335 Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of One Thousand Pesos (P1,000.00) to the HGC Cashier.
A pre-bid conference will be held on October 21, 2015, 2:00 PM at the HGC Conference Room, 3rd Floor Jade Bldg., 335 Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City.
Three (3) separate sealed bid envelopes containing the (I) Eligibility Requirements, (II) Technical Bid Proposal and (III) Financial Bid Proposal shall be dropped inside the “bid box” placed at the Security Guard station, 2nd Floor of Jade Building on or before 2:00 p.m. of November 4, 2015. Thereafter, the bids shall be opened in the presence of the bidders or their representatives at the HGC Conference Room, 3rd Floor Jade Bldg., 335 Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City. The sealed bid envelopes shall be addressed to the Vice-Chair, Bids and Awards Committee.
For other inquiries, please call the HGC BAC Secretariat, Administrative Department at telephone Nos. 897-32-94 and 897-32-66.
The HGC reserves the right to reject any and all bids at any time prior to contract award, annul the bidding process, declare a failure of bidding, or not to award the contract without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders in the following situations:
1. If there is prima facie evidence of collusion between appropriate public officers or employees of the HGC, or between the BAC and any of the bidders, or if the collusion is between or among the bidders themselves, or between a bidder and a third party, including any act which restricts, suppresses or nullifies or tends to restrict, suppress or nullify competition;
2. If the BAC is found to have failed in following the prescribed bidding procedures; or
3. For any justifiable and reasonable ground where the award of the contract will not redound to the benefit of the Government as follows:
  - If the physical and economic conditions have significantly changed so as to render the project no longer economically, financially or technically feasible;
  - If the project is no longer necessary; and
  - If the source of funds for the project has been withheld or reduced through no fault of HGC.

CORAZON G. CORPUZ
Vice-Chair, Bids and Awards Committee