The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) may be one of the hardest working government agencies, but there’s always room for improvement.
“According to a recently released Commission on Audit (COA) report, 41 of the MMDA’s flood control projects (FCPs) in 2012 failed to serve their purpose because of inefficient implementation due to inadequate planning,” reports Michael Punongbayan in The Philippine Star.
The report revealed that “out of the 49 proposed FCPs with a PHP322-million budget in 2012, 41 (or 83.5% percent of the projects)—which cost PHP224 million—were completed only in the third and fourth quarters of the year and in January 2013 due to delays in the bidding process.” It didn’t help that the MMDA wasn’t able to implement the eight remaining FCPs that year.
The COA report said the MMDA’s “failure to start and finish its projects before it started raining in June defeated the intent of mitigating or preventing the impact of the heavy rains to the public at large.”
While MMDA officials explained that delays in the FCPs were caused by the difficulty of coordinating with local officials, the COA asserted that “these problems could have been avoided had there been a project procurement management plan to support the annual procurement plan for the FCPs.”
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