If the technical malfunction that forced the country’s airspace to temporarily shut down was caused by a faulty circuit breaker, why did the government do an emergency procurement of two units of uninterruptible power supply? | BPinlacINQ
“We had a consultation with the supplier and then, they mentioned to us the lifespan of the UPS, so what we did when we found out this information, we did an emergency purchase. These brand new UPS are upgraded, because what we have are old ones. [These] are more modern,” CAAP Director General Capt. Tamayo explained.
“We followed the same procedures, but we just had to expedite and other suppliers were invited, including the original manufacturer,” he added. “We did not really have to fast track the purchase of the UPS. [We could have] simply focused on the fixing of the circuit breaker. Is that right?” the solon asked.But according to Tamayo, they had decided to do an emergency purchase of the UPS units at a time when they were not certain about the cause of the airspace mess.
He later clarified that “there was an approval as far as our back is concerned, because this underwent public bidding.” Rep. Rufus Rodriguez of the 2nd District of Cagayan de Oro then sought to have the emergency purchase scrapped as he called for CAAP to instead pursue a regular procurement as mandated by the law.
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CAAP buys 2 UPS to prevent another air traffic management system breakdown“But we did emergency procurement of two additional UPS because our current UPS is already mid-life. The UPS life is between five to 10 years. Our position is that, why wait seven to 10 years when this is vital equipment, so we procured two right away as a measure to prevent this [New Year’s day Philippine airspace shutdown] from happening again,” Tamayo added.
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