PPP Center
June 28, 2012
Following the series of dialogues to engage key stakeholders through feedback and information exchanges, the Public-Private Partnership Center (PPP Center) recently discussed with some local engineering consulting firms and briefed them on opportunities spawned by the PPP Program.
During the General Membership Meeting and Induction Ceremonies of the Council of Engineering Consultants of the Philippines (CECOPHIL), the largest association of independent engineering consulting firms in the country, PPP Center Deputy Executive Director Ferdinand Tolentino presented key concepts and processes of the PPP Program, and the available opportunities for them to tap, utilize, and participate in.
Consistent with the event’s theme “PPP: A Road to Consulting/Construction Industry’s Success”, Deputy Executive Director Tolentino shared a number of ways on how local consulting firms may be involved in the different stages of PPP project development and implementation with proponent national agencies as well as local government units.
“With the government’s current thrust of investing on and accelerating the country’s infrastructure development, more projects need high caliber consulting firms…,” Tolentino said.
He noted that the Center has been actively helping implementing agencies come up with viable PPP projects through the Project Development and Monitoring Facility (PDMF).
The PDMF is a revolving fund that supports pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, and other necessary pre-investment activities undertaken by consulting firms duly accredited by the PPP Center for the development of well-structured and bankable PPP projects.
Moreover, Deputy Executive Director Tolentino encouraged local consulting firms to participate and take on the vital role of helping local governments come up with smaller yet equally bankable local PPP projects.
“PPPs for LGUs can translate to opportunities for the local consulting industry. Through the LGU PPP Manual which we have launched early this year, and with continuous capacity development interventions, the PPP Center provides local governments with the knowhow to engage in PPPs anchored on transparency and predictability,” he added.
Officers and members of CECOPHIL, for their part, expressed keen interest to support, participate, and grow the business opportunities available for them under the PPP Program. The CECOPHIL General Membership Meeting and Induction Ceremonies was held last 30 May 2012 at the Hyatt Hotel and Casino in Manila.
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