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Angat hydroelectric plant rehab project attracts firms

Angat hydroelectric plant rehab project attracts firms

Business World, 16 January 2013 THE AUCTION for the rehabilitation of two turbines of the Angat hydropower plant in Bulacan — a priority project under the government’s public-private partnership (PPP) program — has attracted the interest of a number of major firms, the Metropolitan Waterworks Sewerage System (MWSS) said yesterday. THE ANGAT hydroelectric plant compound,... continue reading

Firms keen on common ticket project

Firms keen on common ticket project

Business World, 15 January 2013 By Cliff Harvey C. Venzon AT LEAST 22 groups have formally signified their interest in a public-private partnership (PPP) project to build a P1.72-billion automated fare collection system (AFCS) for Metro Manila’s light railways, a cabinet official yesterday said. “Twenty-two companies have purchased the bidding documents,” Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio... continue reading

Why PAL, Cebu Pacific cannot bid for Mactan-Cebu airport

Why PAL, Cebu Pacific cannot bid for Mactan-Cebu airport

Rappler, 11 January 2013 By Lala Rimando UP FOR EXPANSION. No airline operator is allowed to join the bidding for the project to expand and upgrade the country’s second busiest airport. Photo from Department of Transportation’s website MANILA, Philippines – Conflict of interest. That is the main reason why the Department of Transportation and Communication... continue reading

PPP clarifies: Airport stakeholders consulted

PPP clarifies: Airport stakeholders consulted

07 January 2013 PPP Center Letter to the Editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer   The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center would like to clarify certain information that appeared in the Jan. 2 issue of the Inquirer. The story, titled “Cebu airport off limits to groups with airline stakes,” was filed under the byline of Paolo... continue reading

2012 YEARENDER: Roads, airports, and the long wait for PPPs

2012 YEARENDER: Roads, airports, and the long wait for PPPs

Rappler.com, 31 December 2012   MANILA, Philippines – If there’s one thing Filipinos will remember about 2012, apart from the exceptionally high economic growth, it has got to be the bad traffic caused by so many infrastructure projects the government and private sector have been undertaking. This is true because by now, Filipinos, especially those... continue reading

DOTC to bid out LRT2 extension project in 1Q

DOTC to bid out LRT2 extension project in 1Q

Interaksyon.com, 31 December 2012 By Darwin G. Amojelar MANILA – The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) expects to bid out in the first quarter of 2013 the project extending the Light Rail Transit Line 2 (LRT 2) to Antipolo. Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said the civil works for the P9.76 billion LRT 2 East... continue reading

Meeting The 2012 Public-Private Partnership Program Roll-Out Target

Meeting The 2012 Public-Private Partnership Program Roll-Out Target

Manila Bulletin, 30 December 2012 Tempo, 31 December 2012 The government set the bar higher for its Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program in 2012 as it met its goal of eight infrastructure projects – School Infrastructure Project Phase I, NAIA Expressway Phase II, LRT Line 1 Cavite Extension and Operation and Maintenance (O&M), Modernization of Philippine... continue reading

Exporters urge fast-tracking of infra projects

Exporters urge fast-tracking of infra projects

Philippine Star, 30 December 2012   MANILA, Philippines – Exporters are urging the government to fast-track the implementation of infrastructure projects under the government’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) program, citing that doing so could help cut costs and promote greater trade. Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. president Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr. said fast-tracking implementation of priority projects... continue reading

Invitation to bid issued to two PPP major projects

Invitation to bid issued to two PPP major projects

Manila Times, 28 December 2012 Public Private Partnership (PPP) Program proponents are now inviting interested investors to two recently rolled out PPP projects. According to Philippine PPP Center, the Department of Transportation and Communications and the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) Authority are now inviting interested investors to bid for the construction of the passenger... continue reading

More social infrastructure programs next on public-private partnership agenda

More social infrastructure programs next on public-private partnership agenda

GMA News, 25 December 2012 After hitting the targeted roll-out of eight big-ticket projects for this year, the government is now looking to utilize its flagship public-private partnership (PPP) program for so-called “social infrastructure” projects, such as building housing communities for 60,000 informal sector families in Metro Manila and the “restoration and redevelopment” of heritage structures in... continue reading