TO: PROPERTY OFFICES OF SUPREME COURT, COURT OF APPEALS, SANDIGANBAYAN, COURT OF TAX APPEALS, OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR

RE: TRANSMITTAL OF INFORMATION ON ORDERS AND SUBSCRIPTION TO THE GOVERNMENT PURCHASES INFORMATION SYSTEM

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To insure that in the purchase or acquisition of equipment, supplies, etc., through bidding or other authorized procedures, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan, Court of Tax Appeals and all other courts would obtain or secure the most advantageous price and at the same time avoid irregularities in the procurement process, you are hereby DIRECTED to regularly transmit Purchase Orders to the Government Purchases Information System (GPIS), GPIS Center, Commission on Audit, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City.

In the meantime that the installation of the required facilities in your units for access to the GPIS has not yet begun or completed, as the case may be, you must forthwith coordinate with the GPIS for the purpose, including, but not limited to the availment of the personnel of the GPIS Center who shall give appropriate instructions on how to operate the facilities and obtain access to the System, or of the assistance of the Management and Information Systems Office of the Supreme Court through its Chief, Atty. Ivan Uy.

This Administrative Order shall take effect upon its promulgation.

Promulgated this 11th day of August 1999.

HILARIO G. DAVIDE, JR.

Chief Justice