An Act Institutionalizing the Priority Use of Negotiated Procurement-Community Participation in the Procurement of Locally Produced Goods and Services in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao

The Buy Bangsamoro Act of 2025. It requires every regional ministry, office and agency, local government, state university and college and government corporation operating exclusively in the region to give preference, as far as national procurement law allows, to goods made in the region and to community groups that can deliver simple infrastructure and services.

At the start of each fiscal year, each procuring entity must identify which programs and projects suit Negotiated Procurement-Community Participation, a method under the national Government Procurement Act (Republic Act 12009) that lets government buy directly from organised or unorganised community groups, and direct purchase of farm and fishery products under the Sagip Saka Act. Those projects are tagged in procurement plans. Where the conditions are met, the Bids and Awards Committee must recommend community participation, or explain in writing why not. Direct purchases need supplier listing, documented price checks against farm-gate or retail benchmarks, and audit trails.

Simple infrastructure projects are capped at ₱5,000,000 or the GPPB limit. CSEA, MTIT, MAFAR, MILG, MOLE and MIPA must run training for community suppliers. Competitive bidding stays the default method.

It was filed on 12 December 2025 by MP Sha Elijah B. Dumama-Alba, read on first reading on 17 December 2025, deferred on 20 January 2026, and referred to the Committee on Rules on 16 July 2026. It remains in committee.

The explanatory note says restrictive procurement rules, limited market access and trade monopolies keep local farmers, fisherfolk and small producers out of government purchasing. Selling directly to government would give them steady income and fair prices, cut out middlemen, reduce post-harvest losses and support food security.

It proposes negotiated procurement through community participation, already allowed under procurement rules, as the way to do this, with communities acting as suppliers or contractors.

The bill adds a planning duty, not a new procurement power. Section 4 limits it to what is "consistent with existing national procurement laws", Section 6 says nothing displaces competitive bidding as the default, and Section 9 repeats that it must be read consistently with national law. What it would actually change is the paperwork: the annual tagging of projects and a written reason whenever community participation is passed over.

Section 3(g) sets 2 ceilings for simple infrastructure: ₱5,000,000, and whatever maximum the GPPB guidelines prescribe "as amended". If the national guidelines change, the 2 figures will disagree. The rules are to be written by MFBM "in coordination with GPPB", a national body. The policy section also speaks of other countries learning about Bangsamoro industries, which the bill does not take up.

It was filed the same day as Bills 422 and 423, by the same author with the same 6 co-authors on the copy, and like them sat until mid-2026 before referral, here to the Committee on Rules rather than a trade or finance committee.