MANILA, Philippines — The consortium of Megawide Construction Corp. and GMR Infrastructure Ltd. of India bagged the contract for the construction of Clark International Airport’s new terminal building.
The Department of Transportation and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) said the government awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract to the consortium as it had the “lowest calculated responsive bid,” after passing the post-qualification evaluation phase of the competitive bidding.
During the post-qualification phase, statements and documents submitted by the group with the lowest bid are validated and verified.
The Megawide-GMR consortium submitted the lowest bid of P9.36 billion for the Clark International Airport’s terminal building.
Other firms which made financial offers after passing the evaluation of technical proposals were China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd., China Harbour Engineering Co. Ltd., Sinohydro Corp. Ltd., and the consortium of Tokwing Construction Corp.and China Machinery Engineering Corp.
Joshua Bingcang, chair of the special bids and awards committee and senior vice president for business development and operations at the BCDA, said the project’s ceiling price is at P12.5 billion which means offers made should not exceed that amount.
Following the award of the construction contract to Megawide-GMR, the groundbreaking for the new terminal building will be held today at the Clark Civil Aviation Complex in Pampanga.
When completed, the new terminal would bring Clark airport’s total capacity to 12 million passengers per year from the current four million.
The new terminal building is the first project under the Duterte administration’s Build Build Build program to use the hybrid model.
Under a hybrid model, the government will build the infrastructure using its own funds and then bid out the operations and maintenance to the private sector.
The government is pushing for the development of Clark International Airport as it is envisioned to be Asia’s next premier gateway, and is expected to help decongest the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila.
The Clark International Airport passenger terminal building is Megawide-GMR’s second airport project in the country as it is currently operating and expanding the Mactan Cebu International Airport.
By Louella Desiderio
