The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) issued the notice of award (NOA) to MPCALA for the Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAx) Project last Monday, June 8. This is the tenth Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project of the Aquino Administration awarded to the private sector.
DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson released the NOA to the chief executive officer of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp (MPTC) and Tollways Management Corporation, Mr. Ramoncito Fernandez, at the agency’s central office. MPCALA submitted the highest financial bid of PhP 27.3 billion outbidding San Miguel Corporation’s PhP 22.2 billion.
The CALAx is envisioned to provide faster, safer, more comfortable and reliable route between Bacoor and Kawit, Cavite areas, and the Laguna and South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) areas. The project will also help decongest the traffic at these areas especially that Cavite and Laguna are now growing industrial and commercial centers.
The Metro Pacific Group will finance, design and construct, operate and maintain an entire 4-lane, 44.63 km closed-system tolled expressway connecting CAVITEX and SLEX. The Project will start from the CAVITEX in Kawit, Cavite and end at the SLEX-Mamplasan Interchange in Biñan, Laguna.
This PPP Project will have interchanges in 9 locations, namely: Kawit, Daang Hari, Governor’s Drive, Aguinaldo Highway, Silang, Sta. Rosa-Tagaytay, Laguna Blvd., Technopark, and a Toll Barrier before SLEX.
The other PPP projects awarded by the government: Southwest Integrated Transport System Project, LRT Line 1 Cavite Extension Project, Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) Passenger Terminal Building Project, Automatic Fare Collection System, Modernization of the Philippine Orthopedic Center (MPOC) Project, PPP for Scholl Infrastructure Project (PSIP) Phase I and II, NAIA Expressway (Phase II) Project and Daang Hari-SLEX Link Road Project.
