Sopeña confirmed that he remained under his prior oath during defense cross-examination; the chair later excused him.
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September 28, 2026
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Rendell P. Sopeña
PhilGEPS E-Government Procurement Operations Division Chief
The PhilGEPS extract was described in questioning as 49 GenCorp award entries. Sopeña confirmed 15 awarded by Davao City and 33 by PhilHealth Region XI. He corrected counsel's description of the last entry as awarded by OWWA: it was awarded to OWWA by a procuring entity. Procuring entities upload the data; PhilGEPS is a repository, not the overseer of bidding or compliance.
Sopeña identified four Davao City entries as public bidding and the other 11 as small-value procurement in the records. He gave an approximate Davao City total of ₱34.216 million; the small-value subtotal was only a rough estimate.
Police Major Joericson H. Sangalang
PNP Firearms and Explosives Office Records Section Chief
Sangalang was sworn before recess; after limited stipulations and argument over relevance, the chair allowed examination on the remaining offered purposes. He was later excused.
Police Major Joericson H. Sangalang, PNP Firearms and Explosives Office records chief, testified that the office's records showed Type 5 licenses for both the Vice President and Atty. Carpio, with 22 firearms registered to her and 29 to him. He identified three of her rifles and one of his as Class A light weapons and described the certifications he brought as his source.
Sangalang gave current market-survey totals of ₱2,184,550 for the Vice President’s firearms list and ₱5,035,820 for Atty. Carpio’s. He said the system-generated certification did not record production year, and the figures did not establish acquisition cost.