Angara backs procurement reforms; launches Suppliers’ Registry

Training Secretary Eduardo “Sonny” Angara —Inquirer photograph/Niño Jesus Orbeta

MANILA, Philippines — The Division of Training (DepEd) is advancing its procurement reforms and guaranteeing the integrity of its bidding course of, based on its chief, Sec. Eduardo “Sonny” Angara.

Angara underscored the significance of those reforms in the course of the first-ever Suppliers’ Summit, not too long ago held at Century Park Resort, Manila. Throughout the occasion, 250 suppliers and repair suppliers convened to debate procurement enhancements, regulatory compliance, and dispute decision.

“Sa ating mga suppliers at bidders—hindi lang kayo negosyo. Kayo ay kaagapay po natin sa reporma. Wala nang dahilan para maantala. Inexperienced mild na—para sa mas maayos na procurement, para sa dekalidad na edukasyon,” Angara mentioned in a press release on Saturday.

(To our suppliers and bidders—you aren’t only a enterprise. You might be our companions in reform. There is no such thing as a cause to delay. Inexperienced mild now—for higher procurement, for high quality training.)

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The company defined that it has launched the Suppliers’ Registry, a key initiative aimed toward straight connecting suppliers and repair suppliers to market alternatives inside the training division and to “expedite the supply of studying sources to varsities nationwide.”

“The registry [https://suppliers.deped.gov.ph/] permits companies to register their services, obtain bid alerts, and talk straight with DepEd. By streamlining market participation, it seeks to remove inefficiencies and scale back bureaucratic delays in procurement transactions,” it added.

For her half, Undersecretary for Procurement and Finance Oversight Rowena Ruiz disclosed that DepEd has already awarded P1.9 billion value of DepEd Computerization Program initiatives—64,000 laptops and good TV packages and P864 million value of studying sources, consisting of 87 million modules and 74,000 tablets as of March 2025.