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Manila Bulletin,  16 April 2013 The San Miguel group won yesterday the P16-billion expressway project to link the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminals to southern provinces and a gambling complex in Pasay City. Ramon Ang-led San Miguel Corporation, through its subsidiary Optimal Infrastructure Development Corporation, submitted an overwhelming upfront payment offer of P11 billion, well... continue reading

Business Mirror, 15 April 2013 San Miguel Corp. (SMC) construction subsidiary Optimal Infrastructure Development Inc.  on Monday won the contract to connect the country’s premier airport with Manila’s Skyway System and its so-called Entertainment City with a bid of P11 billion. Optimal Infrastructure’s aggressive bid put to shame rival Manila North Tollways Corp.’s bid for only... continue reading

Rappler, 15 April 2013 MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – The country’s largest conglomerate, San Miguel Corp., won the bid for the P15.86 billion-worth NAIA Expressway that will link the country’s 3 airport terminals and the upcoming casino complexes near Manila Bay. In what has been touted as a battle of the Philippine giants over a less... continue reading

GMA News, 15 April 2013 San Miguel Corporation (SMC) on Monday won the bidding held by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for the proposed 10-kilometer Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) expressway project. In an interview with reporters, DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson said wholly-owned unit Optimal Infrastructure Development Corporation submitted the winning bid of... continue reading

Business World, 15 April 2013 SAN MIGUEL CORP.-led Optimal Infrastructure Development, Inc. has won a P15.86-billion project to construct Ninoy Aquino International Airport Expressway, the third public private partnership deal that was auctioned off by the Aqunio government. San Miguel offered a P11-billion up front payment to the government against the P305-million offer of Manila... continue reading

ABS-CBN, 15 April 2013 MANILA, Philippines (2ND UPDATE) – San Miguel group has bagged the contract for the NAIA Expressway project, the third to be bid out under the Aquino government’s public private partnership program. San Miguel’s subsidiary Optimal Infrastructure Development Corp. outbid its lone rival for the contract, Manuel Pangilinan’s Metro Pacific group with its offer... continue reading

Fox Business, 15 April 2013 A unit of conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC.PH) on Monday won the bid to build and operate an elevated toll road that will link Manila’s airport terminals with Entertainment City, the Philippines’ gaming and entertainment complex envisaged as the next big gaming draw in Asia. The government’s PPP Center, which... continue reading

Malaya, 12 April 2013 One Public Private Partnership (PPP) project—$504.8 million NLEX-SLEX Connector Road—that did not go through bidding as an unsolicited proposal will be subject to a “Swiss challenge” later, according to an official at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). “Swiss challenge” means the project’s implementing agency, DPWH in the case of... continue reading

ABS-CBN News, 11 April 2013 MANILA, Philippines – Transportation Secretary Jun Abaya says he will meet with other officials to work out issues about San Miguel’s NLEX-SLEX Connector Road project. The Department of Finance earlier raised an issue about the concession agreement drafted by the Toll Regulatory Board, saying it should be revised to remove... continue reading

Inquirer, 11 April 2013 Several Cabinet secretaries hope to work out the concerns of the Department of Finance (DOF) over San Miguel Corp.’s North Luzon Expressway (NLEx)-Skyway connector highway before any problem gets out of hand. Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya on Wednesday said he would “sit down” with the heads of other... continue reading