NBN revisited: Was the deal under an executive agreement?
Here’s Part 3 of six parts on a special report on the controversial NBN deal.
Excerpt:
ONE of the contentious issues in the National Broadband Network (NBN) project is the supplier contract signed by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) and Chinese supplier ZTE Corp.
In the supply contract, it was noted that the Philippines and China had already entered into a supposed executive agreement, where the latter agreed to finance the NBN project through a loan agreement with Export-Import Bank of China.
Under Republic Act 9184, government deals made under executive agreements are exempted from procurement laws applied to locally-funded projects, which would have to go through a public bidding.
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