{"id":151297,"date":"2018-02-05T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T04:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151297"},"modified":"2018-02-05T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T04:04:45","slug":"roque-insists-bidding-for-warships-completed-during-aquinos-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/05\/roque-insists-bidding-for-warships-completed-during-aquinos-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Roque insists bidding for warships completed during Aquino\u2019s term"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131481\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131481\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Harry Roque (PCOO PHOTO)\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (PCOO PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The PHP16-billion Navy frigate deal was completed during the term of former President Benigno Aquino III, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque insisted Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Roque made this remark after Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano urged Roque over the weekend to \u201cfamiliarize\u201d himself with the time line of the project before clearing the current administration.<\/p>\n<p>Alejano earlier disagreed with Roque who said that the deal was completed during the previous administration noting that the warship contract was finalized between September 26 to 30, 2016 and signed on October 24, 2016 in President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p>In a Palace briefing, Roque explained that all the current administration had to do was hand out a Notice of Award to the winning bidder.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cKailan ba kinondak ang\u00a0<\/em>post-qualification?<em>\u00a0Panahon ni Presidente<\/em>\u00a0Aquino,<em>\u00a0\u2018di ba? Ang ginawa lang ng administrasyon na ito, Agosto, iyong\u00a0<\/em>Notice of Award.\u00a0<em>Pero\u00a0<\/em>everything in the bidding,\u00a0<em>natapos na iyan\u00a0<\/em>during the administration of President Aquino (\u201cWhen was post-qualification conducted? During the term of President Aquino, right? What this administration did in August, is the Notice of Award. But everything in the bidding was completed during the administration of President Aquino.\u201d),\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the reason why the Duterte administration pushed through with the Notice of Award was because it was difficult to invoke the ground that procurement was not necessary.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPaano naman natin masasabing hindi kailangan ang procurement, may problema nga tayo sa\u00a0<\/em>West Philippine Sea (How can we say that we don\u2019t need procurement when we have a problem in the West Philippine Sea)?\u201d Roque said, asking Alejano not to teach him the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy suggestion to Congressman Alejano, he\u2019s my friend, but please don\u2019t teach me the law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The PHP16-billion Navy frigate deal was completed during the term of former President Benigno Aquino III, Presidential Spokesperson Harry &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[1148,15359,43747],"class_list":["post-151297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-benigno-aquino-iii","tag-harry-roque","tag-warships","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}