ILOILO CITY — A private company has expressed interest to establish a one-stop shop application center (OSAC) that will house the processing and issuance of police clearance, health certificate and work permit in Iloilo City.
The unsolicited proposal for the development and installation of the “end-to-end system” by the Eastland Printink Inc. was subjected to a public consultation by the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s committee on police matters on Monday.
Committee chair lawyer Joshua Alim said resource persons during the consultation gave a positive response to the proposal but it has yet to be subjected to a public bidding or Swiss challenge because it is an unsolicited proposal.
“This is an offer of service. When somebody offers for services, it must be subjected to a bidding or Swiss challenge,” he said.
Alim said applying through their proposal is not expensive because it will spare the public the hassle of visiting three offices to process their transactions. The proponent also assured that it has placed security features to ensure that clients’ documents will not be tampered with.
“Our aim is to automate the processes and introduce online mechanisms to hopefully enhance the security, productivity and efficiency of the system,” Robert Bunagan, vice president for finance of the Eastland Printink Inc., said.
With their system, they will be “linking all stations that they are servicing.” They will then be sharing the database of derogatory records of individuals.
“This strengthens the vetting of the applicants and this gives assurance that an applicant with a derogatory record will not be given a police clearance in another locality,” Bunagan said.
He also emphasized that their company will be shouldering the expenses.
“We will be supplying the consumables, the hardware equipment, and maintenance of the system as well and we can also provide complement of employees to operate the system or we could train employees of the city to undertake the processing of the various documents,” he said.
The company has been servicing selected cities and municipalities in the National Capital Region, Batangas, Rizal, Pangasinan, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac and Cebu.
Bunagan said Eastland is a security printer accredited by the National Printing Office. (Perla Lena/PNA)
