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                                                      AGENCY ACTION PLAN and STATUS of IMPLEMENTATION                                                                                  RESULTS of COA VALIDATION
                                                              Agency Action Plan (for Partially Implemented
                                                                and Not Implemented Recommendations)                             Reason for                                                   Actual
                                                                                                                 Status of     Partial/Delay/       Action      Date      Status of
                                            Audit               Action Plan/                        Target                                                                                Implementation
 Ref.     Audit Observations                                                          Person/                   Implemen-           Non-        Taken/Action   Follow    Implemen-                                     Remarks
                                      Recommendations             Remarks           Department   Implementati                 Implementation,                                                  Date
                                                                                    Responsible                   tation                         to be Taken     Up        tation
                                                                                                   on Date                      if applicable
                                                                                                 From     To                                                                              From      To
          while the carrying            the provisions of and COA Circular No.                                                                                                                             recorded directly under Other
          value of the PPE was          IPSAS 17 and 2015-009 and that all                                                                                                                                 Business Income, as follows:
          closed to Prior Year’s        COA Circular No. entries be recorded
          Adjustment, which is          2015-009.           under     appropriate                                                                                                                          -OR No. 1369538 dated
          not consistent with           Specifically, gains accounts.                                                                                                                                      9/12/2025     amounting    to
          paragraph 83 of               or losses arising                                                                                                                                                  ₱27,355.45; and
          IPSAS 17, resulting in        from            the                                                                                                                                                -OR No. 9489662 dated 9/15/25
          the overstatement of          derecognition of                                                                                                                                                   amounting to ₱34,712.00.
          the Other Business            PPE             are
          Income account by             recognized in the                                                                                                                                                  Pertinent documents related to
          ₱2,080,073.96 and an          surplus or deficit                                                                                                                                                 the disposal were submitted by
          undetermined                  for the period and                                                                                                                                                 the PGSO to the PAccO on
          misstatement of the           recorded under the                                                                                                                                                 September 29, 2025, for
          Gain/Loss on sale of          appropriate                                                                                                                                                        appropriate action.
          PPE.                          accounts.

 2024     Feasibility studies for   15. Management             It is the Management’s     PGO                       Fully                                      7/16/25       Not                           GPPB Circular No. 06-2019
 AAR,     seven infrastructure          conduct in-depth       submission that GPPB                             Implemented                                              Implemented                       expressly clarifies that the
AO No.    projects amounting to         analysis and a         Circular No. 06-2019                                                                                                                        conduct of a feasibility study
9, page   ₱5.850 billion, which         comprehensive          which mentions among                                                                                                                        (FS) is a necessary precondition
   58     were funded through           feasibility study,     others,          about                                                                                                                      to     procurement,       to    be
          loans, were neither           including              Feasibility Study and                                                                                                                       undertaken prior to the approval
          prepared            nor       assessments of         detailed engineering                                                                                                                        of the indicative APP. This
          submitted to the Audit        financial viability,   designs, must be read                                                                                                                       requirement ensures that only
          Team, contrary to             socio-economic         and interpreted in                                                                                                                          projects     with      established
          Section       2      of       feasibility    and     conjunction with the                                                                                                                        technical,     economic,       and
          Presidential Decree           management             provisions of the law,                                                                                                                      financial viability proceed to the
          (PD) No. 1445 and             feasibility,      to   specifically    Section                                                                                                                     procurement stage.
          Section 17.6 of the           evaluate               17.6 of the IRR of RA
          Revised Implementing          compliance with        9184        and     the                                                                                                                     In contrast, Section 17.6 and
          Rules and Regulations         the purpose and        provisions of Annex                                                                                                                         Annex “G”, of the 2016 Revised
          (IRR) of Republic Act         intent of Section      “G” on Design and                                                                                                                           IRR of RA 9184 covers only the
          (RA)      No.     9184,       296(b) of RA No.       Build.                                                                                                                                      technical aspects of project
          thereby         raising       7160 and Section                                                                                                                                                   preparation. They do not include
          concerns          about       2 of PD No. 1445.      The       Management                                                                                                                        the     cost-benefit      analysis,
          whether the projects’         Additionally, the      submits and maintains                                                                                                                       economic, financial, or social
          viability and the             study         must     that a Feasibility Study                                                                                                                    analyses that properly form part
          optimal utilization of        address         the    for the Government                                                                                                                          of an FS. Thus, Annex “G” does
          resources          were       viability      and     Center      is       not                                                                                                                    not substitute for, nor dispense
          assessed prior to their       necessity of the       mandatory but merely                                                                                                                        with, the feasibility requirement.
          implementation.               project,        the    a           permissive