A consortium of Megawide Construction Corp. and India’s GMR Infrastructure Ltd. won the contract to upgrade Clark International Airport passenger terminal, the first hybrid Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project under the Duterte administration .
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) declared Megawide-GMR as the winning bidder with its P9.36-billion offer the “lowest calculated responsive bid,” and passing the post-qualification evaluation phase of the competitive bidding.
Megawide-GMCR bested four other bidders for the design, engineering and construction of the new Clark airport terminal building.
DOTr and the BCDA also awarded the contract to the consortium yesterday.
The financial bid was lower than the P12.55 billion project cost.
The other four bidders are China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd , China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd., Sinohydro Corp. Ltd. and the consortium of Tokwing Construction Corp. and China Machinery Engineering Corp.
Done in accordance with government procurement rules, “post-qualification” entails the process of validating and verifying the authenticity and veracity of statements made and documents submitted by the lowest bidder.
The new terminal building will break ground on December 20 at the Clark Civil Aviation Complex in Pampanga. The project is expected to be completed and operational by 2020.
The project involves the construction of a new 82,600-square meter Passenger Terminal Building (PTB) of the Clark International Airport with a design capacity of 8 million passengers per annum.
Megawide and its partner GMR earlier submitted an unsolicited proposal to the Duterte administration to develop Clark International Airport for P250 billion over 50 years concession but it was rejected as the government decided to to bid it out the project through the hybrid PPP scheme.
Megawide-GMR also bagged five PPP projects under the Aquino administration: the P2.5-billion Integrated Transport System – Southwest Terminal , the Mactan Cebu International Airport the modernization of Philippine Orthophedic Center together with World Citi; the P16.42 billion PPP for School Infrastructure Project (PSIP) phase I; and the P3.86-billion PSIP phase II.
This hybrid project is considered the fastest to be implemented by the national government since its approval by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) board in June 2017. The project will break ground just six months after it was approved by the NEDA board.
The Clark International Airport is envisioned to be Asia’s next premier gateway, and is expected to help decongest the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. It is one of the high-impact projects under the Build,Build, Build Infrastructure Program, and complements Clark which is currently being developed as the next investment center in Asia.
By Myla Iglesias
December 20, 2017
