Source: Business World, 18 January 2012
By Eliza J. Diaz
TWO PUBLIC-PRIVATE partnership (PPP) projects under the Health department are slated to move forward to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) board in the next few weeks, an official said on the sidelines of a business matching forum yesterday.
Invitations to bid for the Philippine Orthopedic Center modernization and the second phase of the vaccine self-sufficiency project are expected to be rolled out within the first semester as the PPP Center wraps up preparatory work for the two initiatives.
“The vaccine self-sufficiency project and Orthopedic Center modernization will be ready for submission to the NEDA board in the next few weeks, but the others will be submitted soon enough as well,” PPP Center executive director Cosette V. Canilao, toldBusinessWorld.
“All projects scheduled for rollout this year are already in the advanced stages of project preparations, although no project is with the NEDA board at the moment,” she said.
The Health department’s P900-million vaccine project is expected to be published for bidding in the first quarter, reports said earlier this month. The P5-billion modernization project, meanwhile, could be bidded out in the second half of 2012.
Ms. Canilao attended yesterday the start of a two-day information and communications technology (ICT) forum called e-Smart World Asia 2012 which was organized by the Korea Trade-Investments Promotion Agency (Kotra) and the local Science department.
The PPP official presented this year’s projects which are also seen to benefit from modern ICT services.
The forum intends to create transnational business partnerships in 19 areas including e-government, e-trade and e-learning, among others. — Eliza J. Diaz
