The Philippine Department of Transportation (DOTr) is seeking new bidders that can develop, operate, and maintain five unbundled airport projects to be undertaken under a public-private partnership (PPP) scheme.
Through an invitation to pre-qualify and bid that was published on January 24, DOTr announced the bidding out of the five regional airport projects. This came after the National Economic and Development Authority Board approved November 14, 2016 the unbundling of these five projects, which have a combined cost of P108.18 billion.
These projects are the Bacolod-Silay, Davao, Iloilo, Laguindingan, and New Bohol (Panglao) airports.
Bidding will be conducted through the two-stage/two-envelope system under the Build-Operate-Transfer law. In this process, the bidders are first pre-qualified based on the legal, technical, and financial requirements set by DOTr and attached agency Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines. Only pre-qualified bidders can proceed to the next stage and submit their technical and financial proposals for evaluation by the Pre-qualification, Bids and Awards Committee.
According to DOTr, aside from the previous pre-qualified bidders, the project is now also open to new bidders.
Previously pre-qualified bidders include Filinvest-Jatco-Sojitz Consortium (composed of Filinvest Development Corporation, Japan Airport Terminal Co., Ltd, and Sojitz Corporation); GMR Infrastructure and Megawide Consortium (Megawide Construction Corporation, GMR Infrastructure (Singapore) Pte. Limited); Maya Consortium (Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc and VINCI Airports SAS); Philippine Airports Consortium (Metro Pacific Investments Corporation and Philippines Airport Management Company); and SMHC-IIAC Airport Consortium (San Miguel Holdings Corporation and Incheon International Airport Corp).
DOTr clarified that the previously pre-qualified bidders in the bundled projects are also considered pre-qualified in the unbundled projects, provided that there are no changes in their legal, technical, and financial capacity.
These PPP projects aim to improve the services of the regional airports by allowing the private-sector partner to handle their operation and maintenance, including the enhancement of airside and landside facilities, in line with the government’s plan to develop international gateways in the countryside.
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