Philippine Embassy, Washington DC, 06 June 2012
Malacanang bared the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects that will be rolled out by the Aquino government for the year 2012 focused on the realization of President Benigno S. Aquino III’s social contract with the people and making life better and easier for the Filipinos.
In a regular press briefing in Malacanang, Tuesday, Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda stated the various PPP projects under some government agencies including the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), Department of Education (DepEd) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) that will be open for bidding.
“We would be rolling out some PPP projects for this year, let me just state some of the PPP projects that we will be rolling out… for DOTC expected for bidding by the last quarter of this year will be the line 1 Cavite extension, there’s a publication yesterday for pre-qualification. The Mactan Cebu International Airport, the Panglao Airport, the Automated Fare Collection System and the Cebu Bus Rapid Transport,” Lacierda said.
“For the Department of Education there is a target of around 30 thousand classrooms for PPP, first batch would be 9,300…there is a call for bids this July 8. With the second batch, the target will be 8,500 classrooms, and the third batch will be the balance of 30 thousand,” he added.
Lacierda also said that some of these PPP projects are ready for implementation. He further noted that the 19.984 billion-pesos North Luzon Expressway-South Luzon Expressway (NLEx-SLEx) Link Expressway will be open for bidding in August, among other projects under the DPWH.
“For DPWH, we have already bidded out Daang-Hari and by August, we’ll be bidding out the NLEX-SLEX project, and by next week we will be bidding out NAIA phase 2,” Lacierda said.
“Details of these PPP projects will be provided by the respective department agencies,” he added.
The Public-Private Partnership program is a contractual arrangement between government and the private sector to deliver public infrastructure and/or public services anchored on the administration’s efforts to achieve inclusive growth and poverty reduction.
