Meanwhile, DoTS will be expanded up to the district engineering offices by the second half of 2014. "Additionally, it will be more time and cost-efficient to monitor the processing, since instead traveling to DPWH offices, they can now check their works progress in their own respective offices," it said. The DPWH said DoTS will provide the latest status of the transaction including the "routing, current processing stage, date and time received and sent by the processing offices, and target dates of completion on each process." The DPWH also said the system allows stakeholders to check the status of their documents processing "from just about anywhere, anytime, anyplace and any device," and without being constrained by the office hours between 8 a.m. Stakeholders need just log on to click on “Search Here,” and enter "pertinent information including the DoTS Transaction Code," the DPWH said in a statement. He added that with the new system, tracing documents would "no longer be a burden as it allows aptly responding to queries and prompt those offices and personnel involved into action, even identifying the cause of delay.”ĭubbed the online Document Tracking System (DoTS), the new system involves a web-based portal that can reply to queries regarding business-related documents processing. It is one of our ways to curb corruption in the DPWH," DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson said. "We are now implementing a “no personal” follow-up policy in the Department. This was after the DPWH set up the online tracking of business-related documents to better comply with the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA). The DPWH is mandated to undertake the planning of infrastructure, such as national roads and bridges, flood control, water resources projects and other public works, and the design, construction, and maintenance of national roads and bridges, and major flood control systems. He added that out of the 253 new permanent employees in the DPWH Central Office, 139 now hold the position of Engineer 2, complemented by 22 new administrative aide 22 administrative officers 14 heavy equipment operators eight administrative assistants and seven draftsmen.īBB programs includes the building of roads, bridges, and other public infrastructure to spur economic development.Contractors, suppliers and other people who have transactions with the Department of Public Works and Highways can now track their documents online instead of having to personally follow up their cases. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is one of the three departments of the government undertaking major infrastructure projects. “These job order staff - some have even rendered service for as long as seven years – are all well-deserving and competent personnel who are helping us achieve our country’s Golden Age of Infrastructure,” Villar said. They are now enjoying the security and benefits of permanent employees. “With adequate and competent manpower, we will be able to deliver more projects on time, and in strict adherence to our design standards,” he said.Īlso regularized are 253 individuals previously hired under contract of service in the Central Office. Those hired were 108 additional work force in the DPWH National Capital Region and its nine District Engineering Offices (DEOs) 153 in Region 3 (Central Luzon) 126 in Region 4-A (Calabarzon) 162 each in Region 5 (Bicol) and Region 6 (Western Visayas) 54 in Region 7 (Central Visayas) 123 in Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) and 125 in Region 10 (Northern Mindanao). “These newly-regularized men and women personnel, mostly employed in the Department as contract of service or job order staff for few years, and the rest of our employees and officials are the backbone of the success of our BBB Program,” Villar said in a statement. The new employees hired under the government’s massive infrastructure program are composed of 634 males and 379 females. MANILA – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Monday said it hired over 1,000 engineers under the Build, Build, Build (BBB) program of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.ĭPWH Secretary Mark Villar said 1,013 engineer positions coterminous with the BBB program were filled up nationwide. Skyway 3 project (Photo courtesy of Mark Villar FB page)