To insure a coordinated and expeditious implementation of the Philippine-Japan Highway Loan (PJHL) project, there is hereby created a Special Evaluation and Awards Committee which shall evaluate all bid proposals and contract documents and to recommend award of contract in connection with the prosecution of the PJHL Project, composed of the following:

Representative of the Commissioner of Public Highways	Chairman
Representative of the Secretary (DPWC)	Member
Representative of the PJHL Office	Member
Representative of the Contractors	Member

The inclusion of the representative of the Contractors as member of this committee will be for the purpose of including himself only in the deliberation of the committee as it affects the private sector and will have no vote.

All bid proposals for the construction of the Philippine-Japan Highway Loan Project shall no longer be processed or evaluated by existing award committees in the Bureau of Public Highways, Department of Public Works and Communications, the Presidential Economic Staff and the Permanent Cabinet Committee on Public Bidding, but automatically transferred to the jurisdiction of this Special Evaluation and Awards Committee which shall process and evaluate same in accordance with existing laws or rules applicable thereto.
Administrative Order No. 244 dated October 13, 1970 is hereby revoked.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.


By the President:

(Sgd.) ROBERTO V. REYES
Acting Executive Secretary