MANILA, March 12 -- The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) urged lawmakers on Tuesday to streamline Republic Act No. 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act (GPRA) to address supply issues in projects being funded through Official Development Assistance (ODA).

During a public hearing of the Congressional Oversight Committee on the ODA (COCODA), NEDA Assistant Secretary Jonathan Uy said with the current law, biddings fail due to shortage of qualified bidders for civil works, goods, and highly technical consulting services.

Uy suggested that the best value procurement mechanism in procurement reform should be adopted.

"Instead of talking of price per se as the paramount value, we should come up with technical parame...