President Leonel Fernández appointed a mixed commission of government and business organizations to prepare a bill that would set the rules for regulating the hiring of consulting and supervising services for government construction works. Construction works are seen as one of the major sources of corruption and waste of government resources. As per Decree 200-98, the commission members are Minsiter of Public Works Diandino Peña; the director of the Coordinating and Supervising Office of Government Works, Rafael Serulle; the director of the Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda, Joaquín Gerónimo; Attorney General Abel Rodríguez del Orbe; the director of the Office of Engineers of Government Works, Felix Bautista. Also the director of the Corruption Prevention Department, Pedro Castellanos; and the president of the College of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors. Other members are Roque Napoleón Muñoz, Leonel Rodriguez Ureña, Leandro Guzmán, Mercedes Sabater de Macarrulla, Marcos Rodríguez Sánchez, Francisco Fernández Calventi, Frida Aybar de Sanabia and architect Cristian Maluf Khoury.
