Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS

UPPER KALINGA
As to the availability of fund

DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE

Administrative Officer IV
AUDREY C. RIVERA

Budget Officer II CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

Tabuk City, Kalinga

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

This agreement made and entered into this day of by and between:
(For the Second Party)
GHUMIE PINKIHAN

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS-UPPER KALINGA DISTRICT

Editor-in-Chief

ENGINEERING OFFICE (DPWH-UKDEO), a field Office of DPWH, with office address at

Bulanao, Tabuk City, Kalinga, represented by its District Engineer, EUGENE M. BATALAO,
herein after called the FIRST PARTY”;
And
GURU PRESS, a weekly publication of the GURU PRESS Cooperative with general
circulation in Kalinga and the Cordillera Region, a Filipino Business registered in accordance
Assistant District Engineer

with existing laws, with editorial address along Provincial Road, Poblacion West, Tabuk City,
TEODORO A. OWEK

(For the First Party)

Kalinga represented by its founder ESTEFANIA W. KOLLIN, PhD hereinafter referred to

as the “SECOND PARTY”.
WITNESSES

WITNESSETH:

Whereas, the FIRST PARTY is purchasing local weekly newspaper particularly the GURU
Press “Guru-od ti Amianan” referred to as “PERIODICALS” ;

Whereas, the SECOND PARTY is the sales distributor of newspaper to various national
ESTEFANIA W. KOLIN, PhD

and local Offices in Tabuk City and Kalinga Province and has offered to sell and supply
Founder, GURU PRESS

PERIODICALS to the FIRST PARTY through credit line, pursuant to the terms and
conditions agreed in this MOA by both parties;
(Second Party)
GURU PRESS

Whereas, the FIRST PARTY has reviewed and accepted said offer in view that it would
be more practical and advantageous to the government to formalize a supply agreement
with certain sales newspaper distributor;

Whereas, in coordination of the foregoing parties, both PARTIES agree, as follows;

Department of Public Works and Highways
Upper Kalinga District Engineering Office

GENERAL PROVISIONS:

1.That the SECOND PARTY shall extend credit line to the FIRST PARTY for the purchase
and delivery of PERIODICALS weekly except on Saturdays, Sundays and non-working
Republic of the Philippines

holidays at a corresponding costs to the DPWH-UKDEO of ten (10) copies at Php 8.00/copy
every Monday;
EUGENE M. BATALAO
District Engineer

2. Weekly Delivery Report with corresponding total cost of the PERIODICALS delivered
(FIRST PARTY)

and Billing Statement shall be made by the SECOND PARTY on the first working day of
the succeeding month;
3. That the FIRST PARTY shall pay the exact amount for the number of PERIODICALS
actually delivered tallying with the Monthly Delivery Report and Billing Statement within five
(5) day from receipt of the Billing Statement;

4. All applicable taxes, cost and other charges assign from the sales transactions shall be
for the account of the SECOND PARTY;

5. Either PARTY in this agreement can revoke any or all the terms or conditions stipulated
herein should there be any gross violation of the same, in writing, addressed to the other
party who has caused the violation, within seven (7) days from the commission of the act;
and

6. That the parties shall exert their best efforts in resolving whatever differences that may
arise from the execution of their agreement and shall subject themselves to the procedures
of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in resolving the said conflict;

EFFECTIVITY:

This MOA shall be effective for a period of one (1) year (January to December 2019) and
shall be binding to both parties upon signing of this instrument, unless otherwise revoked
or rescinded.

No amendments, variation, addition or substitution in this MOA shall have any force or
effect unless the same is made in writing.

Neither PARTY shall have any claim for the damages under this MOA except for the payment
of obligations. In case of suit, the parties agree that all actions arising from this MOA will
be filed in the court of Tabuk City.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have signed this agreement on _____ day of
_____________, 2019 at Bulanao, Tabuk City, Kalinga.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS GURU PRESS

AND HIGHWAYS- UPPER KALINGA
DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE

EUGENE M. BATALAO ESTEFANIA W. KOLLIN, PhD

District Engineer Founder

WITNESSED
FIRST PARTY SECOND PARTY

TEODORO A. OWEK GHUMIE PINHIKAN

Assistant District Engineer Editor-in-Chief

Certified Accountability of Funds

AUDREY C. RIVERA
Budget Officer II

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) s.s

Tabuk City, Kalinga, Province

BEFORE ME, Notary Public for and in the above jurisdiction, this day of
2019, personally appeared the above-named persons, who have
satisfactorily proven to me their identity through their identifying documents that they are
the same persons who executed and voluntarily signed foregoing Memorandum of
Agreement, which they acknowledged before me as their free and voluntary act and deed.

This instrument consists of three (3) pages, including this page on which this
Acknowledgement is written, duly signed by both parties and their witnesses on the left in
each and every page by their parties, and their instrumental witnesses.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL, this ______ day of __________, 2019 at

Bulanao, Tabuk City, Kalinga, Philippines.

Doc No. _________

Page No. ________
Book No. ________
Series of 2019

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