The Department of Transportation (DOTr) yesterday opened to new bidders the contract to develop, operate and maintain the five unbundled regional airports , with a combined cost of P 110.4 billion .
In a published invitation to pre-qualify and bid (ITPQB), the DOTr is inviting bidders for the auction of five airports namely Bacolod-Silay for P 20.26 billion; Davao, P40.57 billion ; new Iloilo, P30.40 billion; Laguindingan, P 14.62 billion and new Bohol (Panglao) , P 4.57 billion under te public-private partnership (PPP) scheme.
Aside from the previous pre-qualified bidders, the DOTr said the project is now also open to new bidders.
Previously pre-qualified bidders in the bundled projects are also considered pre-qualified in the unbundled projects, provided that there are no changes in their legal, technical and financial capacity.
However, “ they (prequalified bidders) will be required to submit the updated versions of the expired documents and other documents as may be necessary within the period to be specified in another general bid bulletin. Failure to submit required documents will be a ground for disqualification,” the DOTr said
The five prequalified bidders include: Filinvest-Jatco-Sojitz consortium (composed of Filinvest Development Corp., Japan Airport Terminal Co. Ltd. and Sojitz Corp.), GMR Infrastructure and Megawide consortium (composed of Megawide Construction Corp.; GMR Infrastructure (Singapore) Pte. Limited (GISPL); Maya consortium (Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc; VINCI Airports SAS); Philippine Airports consortium (Metro Pacific Investments Corp.,Philippines Airport Management Co.) and; SMHC-IIAC Airport consortium (San Miguel Holdings Corp. and Incheon International Airport Corp. )
The bidding will be conducted through the two-stage/two-envelope system under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) law. In this process, the bidders are first pre-qualified based on their legal, technical, and financial requirements set by the DOTr and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).
Only bidders that are pre-qualified can proceed to the next stage of the bidding process where they will submit their technical and financial proposals which will be evaluated by the Pre-qualification, Bids and Awards Committee.
The Aquino administration rolled out the regional airport project in two bundles: Bundle 1 composed of Iloilo and Bacolod-Silay airports and Bundle 2 covered the Davao, New Bohol (Panglao) and Laguindingan airports.
But the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) board headed by President Duterte approved last Nov. 14, 2016 the unbundling of these airport under PPP deals.
The private partner will undertake the operation and maintenance of the airport, provide additional facilities and other necessary improvements to enhance passenger safety, security, access, passenger and cargo movement efficiency, and operational efficiency as well as actively market the airport in order to develop direct international passenger traffic and diversify revenue sources.
25 January 2017
