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The Physical Facilities Coordinator for DepED Gingoog City and the DepED Engineer visited Agay-ayan Elementary School in West District 1 and Alfonso Ang Militante Elementary School in South District to supervise the lay-out of the one-classroom one-storey school buildings for both schools. The project is under the Basic Education Facilities Fund, CY 2011 for Red and Black Schools. Thses two classrooms is part of the 10 Million Pesos BEFF allocation for CY 2011. The other projects are the following: 1. Construction of 3-seater toilet in Pedro Maligmat ES, Daan Lungsod ES, Gingoog City Comp NHS and Mimbunga NHS. 2. Repair of 10 CL at Bal-ason ES 3. Procurement of School Furniture CY 2010 and 2011. 4. Construction of 2 storey 4 CL school buildings at Don Restituto Baol CS and Gingoog City Comp NHS. The whole package of projects amounted to 10 Million Pesos.

yESTERDAY June 2, the TWG went to Butuan to conduct bank verification and plant visit in connection with the post qualification process for the three firms who posted lowest bid in during the bid opening on May 25, 2011. At end of the day one firm was not able to be post visited due to the absence of the one in-charge. It will be visited later on.

Bringing education closer to the people is one objective that the government is trying to pursue in the face of limited resource. Along this line, the Department of Education, upon the initiative of the Anakan Barangay Council, took the effort to establish another public secondary school in Barangay Anakan, Gingoog City. This brings to thirteen the number of high schools in Gingoog City. Last March, PUNDASAN HS was inaugurated in Barangay Santiago, Gingoog City.

In or der t o promote transparency in all government procurement projects, the Bids and Awards Committee of DepED Gingoog City conducted a public bidding on May 26, 2011 for the following projects for CY 2011: 1. Construction of 3-seater Type II toilets in Daan Lungsod ES, Pedro Maligmat ES, Mimbunga NHS, and Gingoog City Comprehensive National High School. These construction projects will address the lack of water and sanitary facilities in most schools. 2. Repair of 10 CL at Bal-ason Elementary School. The school's classrooms were so dilapidated that a major facelifting is needed. This bidding was done after a mandatory posting at the PhilGEPS website (PhilGEPS stands for Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System), which can be accessed by practically everybody all over the world. After the bid opening, a bid evaluation and post qualification will be done to determine the lowest calculated and responsive bid (LCRB).

The prebid conference for various BEFF CY 2011 projects will be held at the Division Conference Hall at the DepED Division Office Building Conference Hall, 9:00 AM. Prospective bidders for the repair, construction and furniture procurement projects are expected to attend.

With the information that funds for the rehabilitation of the Gabaldon building at Manuel Lugod ES is available, the Physical Facilities Coordinator of Gingoog City Division, together with DepED Engineer Sandy Simo went to Manuel Lugod ES to have a personal look at the condition of the building. The floor in one of the seven classrooms was opened up, enough for the engineer to go down. Engr. Simo studied the structure below and saw some floor joist that needs replacement. The floor itself needs many replacements, owing to the age of the building, which was supposedly built in 1932. Engineer Simo started making exploratory drawings/sketches to have a clear guide for estimating repair works. The building has seven rooms, four at the corners and three in the middle. Architect Patawaran explained that before, the four corner rooms served as classrooms while the three middle classrooms have movable partitions that served as session hall for functions like meetings, school convocations

Yesterday I received this long letter from Engr. Oliver R. Hernandez, Chief PFSED informing us that we still have 23 schools which have not submitted their GIS-BSPS forms. This forms have been distributed to all school heads in 2008 where it was given as a bring home work after the orientation. Some submitted on time. Others submitted after 3 months. These 23 did nothing. Hence, after a long hiatus, a wake up call came, insering the basic form so that it could be facilitated soon. This GISBSPS is a project of DepED School Mapping Unit, to have a database of all school sites including the its size, geographic features, student population and its geographic coordinates. The Ginsaugon experiences taught that it is important to really establish the school's location. After the landslide that wiped out a Ginsaugon elementary school, there was a hard time locating the school buildings in order to recover the victims. Hopefully this year we will be able to submit 100% of the GISBSPS