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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Secondly, I will speak on Clause 124 which raised quite some heat within the Committee. It talks about evaluation of tenders by public entities and that the financial and technical capability of tenderers shall be given equal weight. There are two schools of thought. One is that some felt that this was an absolute statement that refers to all categories of tendering despite the fact that it is in Part X which talks about consultancy services and requests for proposals. In this Senate amendment, probably, the wording did not fully match the spirit of that amendment because it is in a section talking about quality and cost-based selection as one of the methods of procurement and that where there is a competitive process that takes into account quality of the proposal and the cost with the same weight, then it is only in that situation where you can have equal weights for technical and financial capacity. However, it must not be applied to all categories of tendering. That is something that should be improved since we have agreed on these amendments. They are only five of them. We could improve them through the regulations or whichever measure that shall be taken."
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