Executive Order No. 358




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 358, September 23, 1959 ] FURTHER AMENDING THE FOURTH PARAGRAPH OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 298, DATED AUGUST 12, 1940, ENTITLED “PROHIBITING THE AUTOMATIC RENEWAL OF CONTRACTS, REQUIRING PUBLIC BIDDING BEFORE ENTERING INTO NEW CONTRACTS, AND PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS THEREFOR,” AS INSERTED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 146, DATED DECEMBER 27, 1955, AND AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 212, DATED NOVEMBER 6, 1956, AND EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 318, DATED SEPTEMBER 17, 1958 The Fourth paragraph of Executive Order No. 298, dated August 12, 1940, as inserted by Executive Order No. 146, dated December 27, 1955, and amended by Executive Order No. 212, dated November 6, 1956, and Executive Order No. 318, dated September 17, 1958, is hereby further amended to read as follows: “However, highway district engineers, city engineers, or project engineers and headquarters engineers in division offices and in Manila can make direct legitimate emergency purchases with any known company in their province, or in nearby provinces, or in Manila, of spare parts for machinery and equipment used in public works which are of the make of the company and/or locally manufactured spare parts of any make which have been tested and found satisfactory by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications and at their prices, less the usual discount extended to government offices and another discount for cash purchases, provided that if a spare part being purchased in Manila will cost ?50.00 or more, the representative of the Department of Public Works and Communications shall be accompanied by a representative of the Bureau of Supply Coordination; provided further that if such purchases exceed ?3,000 per month, prior authority shall be secured from the Secretary of Public Works and Communications; and, provided finally, that except in cases of urgently needed spare parts for immediate use and not for the purpose of carrying them in stock, the approval of the Auditor General or his authorized representative shall be secured before such direct purchases are made.” Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth. (SGD.) CARLOS P. GARCIA President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) ENRIQUE C. QUEMA Assistant Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation