Who is monitoring the Barangays in compliance with RA 9184?

Good day.... most of the Barangays are still nor register with PHILGEPS although they have to be register (December2007)right? They are still not posting opportunities.
We encourage them to post and use the facilities in the office yet they are still not adhering to the provisions since they are independent LGU

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it is agreed that RA 9184 admits no exception in its application, however, i would like to point out that in some very, very rural barangays, (nakakahiya kasing sabihin na primitive), strict application of the said law is near to impossible.

some of these barangays can only be reached on a horse (cow/ carabao)back ride, have no electricity yet, no computers, no fax/ telephone lines. even their vouchers are handwritten. to let them prepare PPMP and APP is very unlikely to happen. much less to ask them to buy their office supplies from PS-DBM. mas mapamahal pa kasi claim pa sila ng per diems.

these barangays procure goods such spices (salt, onions, garlic, etc.), meat, chicken, goat and other food stuffs from the sari sari stores or directly from the farmers themselves. in some cases, the only store which offers the goods to be procured is owned by one of the barangay officials.

i hope that these scenarios can be taken into account by the GPPB, which had acknowledged the peculiarity of the barangay system and had 'vowed' to issue a procurement manual specifically designed to address the barangays.

as to the monitoring of the application of RA 9184, we auditors have to exercise some flexibility in this area, though we try to advise the barangay officials to follow the law as much as possible.