Forty-nine food services contracts were awarded by government offices in the Davao Region to a corporation linked to Vice President Sara Duterte, a Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) official said on Tuesday.
PhilGEPS Electronic Government Procurement Operations Division chief Rendell Sopeña said a total of P35,878,188 was awarded to Gencorp Industries Inc. while testifying in Duterte’s impeachment trial.
‘We searched the repository, or the procurement database based on the merchant Gencorp Industries Inc. and upon search po na ginawa namin sa procurement database, it resulted to 49 contracts awarded to Gencorp Industries Inc.,’ Sopeña said.
Duterte listed herself as a stockholder of Gencorp Industries Inc. in her statement of assets, liabilities and networth (SALN) from 2016 when the corporation was still named Timesquare Bee Foods Corp.
According to Sopeña, the contracts were awarded to Gencorp during Duterte’s vice presidency.
One contract worth P331,000 was awarded by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Region 11, 15 contracts amounting to P34,216,900 were awarded by the city of Davao, and the rest of the 33 contracts worth P1,331,288 were from the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation- Region 11.