Gov’t seeks bidders for P781-M Bicol airport contract

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MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is inviting bidders for a P781-million construction contract for key facilities at the Bicol International Airport, also known as the New Legazpi Airport, a published notice showed.

The Bicol project is currently being built in Barangay Alobo, Albay and the contract will cover power, water and sewer facilities, as well as key structures such as the control tower and cargo terminal.

The DOTC said interested groups could acquire bid documents for P75,000. Offers will have to be submitted on Jan. 21, 2015 and will be opened on the same day.

Moreover, a pre-bid conference was set for Jan. 9, 2014, the DOTC said.

The department said early this week that increased focus would be placed on airport and railway projects in 2015.

Last week, it rolled out a six-airport public private partnership deal, which involves the bundling of major provincial airport projects valued at about P116 billion.

The PPP project mainly involves turning over to the private sector the maintenance and operations contracts of airports in Bacolod-Silay, Davao, Iloilo, Laguindingan, New Bohol (Panglao), and Puerto Princesa, which are gateways to major tourism and business destinations across the country.

Some of the projects would need immediate expansion, either in terms of capacity or facilities, the department said.

It said this would cover the Bacolod Silay International Airport (P20.26 billion), Davao International Airport (P40.57 billion), Iloilo International Airport (P30.4 billion) and Laguindingan Airport (P14.62 billion).

For those projects, the DOTC said “the private sector proponent shall take over the operations and maintenance of the airport, undertake immediate expansion of the passenger terminal building, apron, other airside and landside facilities and any capacity augmentation of the airport” needed to meet future demand.

For the gateways in Panglao and Puerto Princesa airport, the DOTC said the O&M contract would be turned over to the private sector upon completion of ongoing construction activities.

This comes a year after the government auctioned off its first airport PPP, the P17.5-billion Mactan Cebu International Airport.