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Senator Jinggoy Estrada on Monday, September 19 called on the Senate to dig deeper into the Department of Education's (DepEd) computer procurement program to determine if it has resorted to the practice of "splitting of contracts" so it can grant multi-billion peso deals to only a few laptop supplie
After presiding for almost eight hours the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee public hearing last Thursday (Sept. 15), Senator Francis “Tol” Tolentino was extremely dismayed at how their inquiry on the alleged “overpriced and outdated laptops” procured by the Department of Education got played on online media.
"Everyone was working from home and going online, so the demand for laptops increased...that's the reason why prices went up, because stocks were emptied. When we started the market survey, the prices went up...That's a factor," Lao said in mixed Filipino and English.