The Department of Justice is set to issue this end of February the official invitation to interested bidders for the Php50.11 billion Regional Prison Facilities through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project, the first of its kind in the country.
Following the publication of the Invitation to Prequaify and Bid, DOJ will be conducting an Investors Conference on March 20 in Manila to present the project to interested private groups.
The private partner through a PPP contractual arrangement will be responsible for the financing, detailed design and construction, and maintenance of the prison facility.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said during the recent Regional Development Council meeting in San Fernando, Pampanga that the project aims to decongest the NBP which has over 20,000 inmates.
“It is the first major PPP project of DOJ and the Bureau of Corrections and also the first of its kind in the country,” De Lima said.
The project will entail the construction and maintenance of a modern prison facility in Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija. It envisions to create a “humane” prison condition that will provide adequate living spaces, facilities, and address the basic needs of inmates incarcerated in the existing penal facilities—
New Bilibid Prison (NBP) and the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW).
