Information and Communications

Technology Office

Advanced Science and

Technology Institute

2012 Accomplishment Report

Integrated Government Philippines Project
Summary
In six months after its launch in June 2012 the Integrated Government Philippines
(iGovPhil) Project has accomplished quite a number of tasks that it set out to do even
months before. Among these are the process of procurement and set up of
infrastructure,
the plan for systems integration, the series of brainstorming and
meetings with stakeholders, the forging of memorandum of agreements with partner
agencies, and training of project staff and agency users.
In terms of infrastructure, the project has been slowly taking shape with the delivery of
hardware for the Manila Data Center in October and Cebu Data Center in December.
Bidding is ongoing for the many infrastructure development like the renovation of the
300 sqm area at the NCC building for the Manila Data Center, and the fiber optic
network that will interconnect 160 government agencies in Metro Manila.
Components under system integration also stayed on tract. Talks with Securemetric on
December 12 was held for PKI as well as a pre-bid conference for NaRMISon December
14. A template for government websites was presented in December and approved for
adaption by the iGovPhil.
MOAs have been signed with the DOTC-MRT3-ICTOand TRC, and a Template MOA for
node agencies is ready. More are under review.
Below is the highlight of the monthly accomplishments of the various components of the
project:

May 2012

An Agency Outsourcing request (AOR) was submitted to the Philippine

International Trading Corp. for the procurment of CO items.
An iGovPhil team met with MMDAand LRTAto discuss possible MOAsfor the setup
of shared fiber optic network.
Manila Data Center: Three suppliers participated in an initial site survey. Floor
plan of whole 300sqm area in NCCalready provided to suppliers for bidding.
Cebu Data Center: Identified TELOF NTP Toll Facility as site. Initial ocular visit
conducted by ASTI (Bani and Rod), and DOST7/CVISNET (Beam and Roy) last in
March.

Met with two suppliers (Securemetric/Primekey

and Nexus) for PKI.
Met with one supplier (UR Solutions) for the setup and deployment
of
government-wide e-mail and collaboration system. Initial cost proposal for 6,000
licensed Zimbra accounts and 4,000 Zimbra community edition (free) using
@gov.ph domain was submitted.
Met with Bastion Payment Gateway and drafted MOA. MOA was being reviewed by
NCC Legal.
Government portal: Met with Jonathan Cuevas of the Office of Press Secretary
(Manuel Quezon III office). A verbal agreement had been reached for the setup a
government portal.

June-July
Conducted and assessed major events handled by the project such as project
briefing and pre-launching, together with the stakeholders and the partner
agencies.
Participated in the National Science and Technology Week.
Conducted Redmine orientation and briefing to Project Management Component
members.
Prepared Fiber Core Network Plan with identified loops and agencies to be
connected.
The Infrastructure team met with MRTC and LRTA for preliminary discussions. All
right-of-way (ROW) issues were approved in principle.
Fiber Core Network Plan: TelOf and ASTI conducted ocular inspection at MRT
North Avenue Station on July 13, 2012.
TelOf conducted MRT Station Inspection on July 17, 2012 and found that
underground stations like the one in Buendia need poles. The one in Taft Avenue,
on the other hand, is too crowded and have to be redesigned.
U/Sec. Louis Napoleon Casambre, together with the component members, met
with MMDAChairman Francis N. Tolentino on July 18, 2012.
A budget of Php 50 million was allocated for the two data centers: Manila (Php 30
M) and Cebu (Php 20).
Two suppliers, ATI and Prime Access, joined the initial site survey of the Manila
Data Center.
Consultations for IP Network were held with Ericsson on May 7 and Google on May

9.

An exploratory talk on systems development with Technology Resource Center

(TRC) was held on July 18.
Two suppliers, Securemetric/ Primkey (open source) and Nexus (propriety),
submitted cost proposals for PKI.
Pre-procurement with Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC) was held on
June 14.
TOR for forms generator was finalized.
Conducted the DOST Technology and Industry Forum on High Impact Technology
Solutions (HITS), in coordination with DOST-ASTIand DOST HITS TaskForce on July
11.
The Knowledge and Communications team created the social networking accounts
for Facebook and Twitter.

August
Baseline infrastructure
diagram for the Fiber Optic Network was submitted on
August 10.
Drafted MOAs with LRT, MRTC, DND, MMDA and NAP.About 15 sites were identified
as network switches.
Two suppliers, ATI and Prime Access, came for the site survey for the Manila Data
Center.
TelOf Cebu was identified
as the Cebu Data Center. Cable route plan was
approved.
A schematic diagram for IPNetwork was developed in consultation with Google
and Ericsson.
Conducted bid opening for PKI
Identified potential Registration Authorities for PKI
Completed walk-through review for eBayad.
Conducted exploratory meeting with various payment gateways, such as Bastion
Payment Systems, YESpayments, AsiaPay and Dragonpay.
Conducted bid opening for GovMail.
Drafted MOA and TOR for NaRMISand for Forms Generator.
The Social Marketing conducted a lecture on Development of Systems Engineering
and Risk Analysis Tools for Managing Disaster Consequences on Interdependent
Infrastructure and Economic Systems.
The Policy Standards and Development team drafted policy for the systems and
applications.
Brownbag sessions held for project
staff on Redmine Training, Project
Management, Mindmap, Fibercore for Dummies and Prezi.
Training conducted on Managing ICT, Governance in the Public Sector to the iGov
Social Marketing Component.
KfrC finalized iGov Communications Plan and contents to be included on website.
It also revised the first printed brochure
September
PMO drafted the Quality Plan, Procurement Plan, Project Scope Plan
Drafted MOAs with TelOf VII - ICTO (transfer of funds for the development of Cebu
Data Center and deployment of fiber optic cables in Cebu government offices),
and with the National Archives of the Philippines.
Finalized the Fiber Network Plan. Prioritized Quezon City loop.
Fiber Infra team conducted LRT 1 Fiber Testing Debriefing on September 11.
Fiber Network Equipment team met Huawei on September 11 for the finalization
of TOR and discussion of fiber infra network map, hardware equipment,
maintenance and monitoring and fiber specs to be used.
The TOR for refurbishment and repair of Manila Data Center was submitted to the
Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC).
The Notice of Award (NOA) for data center equipment was issued to bidder. Order
confirmation has been issued.
Submitted two propossals for eBayad and forms generator.
Identified
and reviewed potential
Registration Authorities
(RAs) for PKI.
Guidelines were released.
Identified DBM and DOSTas pilot agencies for NaRMIS.

Social Marketing announced that the number of participating

government
agencies increased from 98 to 149.
Training references and manuals were consolidated and Program of Instructions
(POI) formulated.
Cluster Meeting and Last Mile Training were posted on the events section of the
iGovPhil website.
Rewrote and finalized contents of brochure.

October
Conducted Detail Implementation Planning on PKI, Govmail and iGovPhil Cloud on
October 27-29, 2012 in Subic.
Finalized MOAs with LRTAand ICTO, DND and DOsT and drafted the template MOA
for Node Agencies.
Purchase Confirmation for data center equipment was signed on October 3, 2012.
Notice to Proceed given to TIM-ssl on October 17, 2012.
Preliminary pre-procurement for fiber optic network conducted on October 24,
2012 at PITe.
Technical Evaluation Sheet for PKI was signed by AsTI on October 17, 2012.
Pre-procurement for Rack Mountable Firewall was held on October 24, 2012 at
PITe.

Equipment for Manila Data Center was delivered on October 25,2012.

Drafted TOR for Fiber Optic Network and identified aerial and underground
connections.
Identified enabling applications for PKI, Govmail, NaRMls, and Redmine.
Conducted NaRMls workshop on October 12, 2012 at NCe.
Director Tamayo of the Bureau of Treasury agreed to have the bureau act as the
Single Merchant for eBayad. Met with members of the GEPCsET,from DTI and BsP,
to discuss policy issues.
Conducted Cluster Meetings of government agencies from Quezon City on October
4 and 5, 2012.
A training on Last Mile Hardware Network Component was conducted on October
12-13 at NCe.
KfrC presented a new design and layout of the iGovPhil website. All events,
pictures and presentations were posted on Facebook and Twitter.
Copies of multi-page brochure were printed and distributed during the Cluster
Meetings and Last Mile training.
Press releases on Cluster Meeting, Last Mile Training and GovMail were issued.

November
Presented ebayad's Enterprise Architecture to DBM, ICTO, NCC, BTr, COA and BsP
on November 27,2012.
Finalized TOR for NaRMls development.
OP-PCDsPOand AsTI met and agreed on standards for websites of NGAs, sUCs and
LGUs in three platforms: Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla!
A training, sponsored by IBM, on Installation and Configuration of Data Center
Servers was held on November 7-9.
A Brownbag session for technical staff, VI/VM Text Editor, was held on November
21.
A training for technical staff on Domain Name System was held on November 28.

Batch 2 of Last Mile Training for government agencies was conducted on

November 15-16.
ICT Penetration Testing and Web Security seminar was held (in partnership with
ISACAManila Chapter).
Conducted Cluster Meetings of government agencies on November 12 and 13,
2012.

December
Planned to put additional active fiber equipment between nodes at Congress, DA,
PAGASA, LRT Tayuman, LRT Central, LRT Gil Puyat, NEA, NICA. (ASTI and TelOf
computation exceeds 6db maximum loss allowance at these points).
Updated FOC TOR and map submitted to PITC on December 21. Eight-node server
and appliance firewall has been delivered at NCe.
Submitted a rebidding of PACU/ACU refurbishment for Manila Data Center.
Delivery and installation of equipment at TelOf Cebu was conducted on December
4-7,2012.
Presentation of the government website template for NGAs, SUCs, LGUs was
conducted on December 14, 2012. Attendees were from the ASTI, NCC, OPPCDSPO,CHED, DILG and DFA.
Installation
and configuration
and customization
of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization platform and Zimbra Collaboration Suite for GovMail were started
and still going on.
Met with Securemetric for PKI on December 12, 2012. (The schedule was moved
due to the late issuance of Notice to Proceed. TOR requirement in PKI: same
schedule of delivery of hardware and software.)
Brown Bag sessions on Linux for data center personnel were held on December 5,
12, and 19, 2012.
Cluster Meeting for Priority 2 and 3 agencies was held on December 12, 2012.

MOAs
Concluded MOAs with DOTC-MRT3-ICTO, TRC, and Template MOA for node
agencies. MOAs for
review: DND-DOST, LRTA-ICTO, MMDA-ICTO, NAP-ICTO, UPCEd-ICTO MOA, ICTO-NM-NAPTripartite MOA, and iSchools Mother MOA.

Prepared by:
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HERNAN MELENCIO
Information Officer III
Knowledge and Communications

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DIR. DENIS F. VILLORENTE

Project Director