Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte will jumpstart this month the country’s first Market One-Stop-Shop (MOSS) system at the Murphy Public Market.
“Inconvenience and inefficiency caused by the traditional manual market management system affects the productivity of market vendors. Thus, the city has initiated MOSS which digitalizes all these processes, shortens waiting time and eliminates the hassle of going physically to city hall,” she said.
MOSS, a project of the Market Development and Administration Department, shall initially cover the digital and simplified process of market registration and permit application for QCitizen market owners, vendors and stall owners in its eight city-owned public markets.
Aspiring stall holders and existing market vendors can easily view what market stalls are still available, the documentary requirements needed, and thereafter pay the corresponding fees, thus avoiding the long lines and inconvenient paperwork required in the old manual process. Belmonte recently led launching ceremony of the project.
She said MOSS as part of the city’s good governance and ease of doing business initiatives would also be integrated with the city’s Business One Stop Shop (BOSS) to streamline the overall business permit process.
“In addition to efficiency and convenience, the new system addresses corruption and the ‘palakasan’ system,” she cited.
MDAD officer in charge Ma. Margarita Santos said the city aims to register a total of 12,000 stall holders within the eight city-owned public markets, 32 private markets, 124 approved temporary vending sites for hawkers, and 46 talipapas.
“Data gathered through MOSS is very vital for the city because this will be used as the basis for the establishment of additional public markets and vending sites if needed. MDAD is already looking for possible locations that can be utilized as vending sites,” she said.