To insure an effective and coordinated implementation of the Digos (Davao)-Cotabato (IBRD Loan) Project, there is hereby created a Special Evaluation and Awards Committee which shall have for its major function to evaluate all bid proposals and contract documents and to recommend award of contract in connection with the prosecution of the Digos (Davao)-Cotabato (IBRD Loan) Project, composed of the following:

Representative of the Commissioner of Public Highways	Chairman
Representative of the Director General, PES	Member
Representative of the Secretary  DPWC	Member

Representative of the Commissioner of Public Highways    Chairman
Representative of the Director General, PES    Member
Representative of the Secretary
DPWC    Member

All bid proposals for the construction of the Digos (Davao)-Cotabato (IBRD Loan) Project shall no longer be processed or evaluated by existing award committees in the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Public Highways, the Presidential Economic Staff or the Permanent Cabinet Committee on Public Bidding but automatically transferred to the jurisdiction of this Special Evaluation and Awards Committee which shall process and evaluate same in accordance with existing laws or rules on the matter.

Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of May in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-One.

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary

Source: Malacañang Records Office