MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has deferred anew the bid submission deadline for the proposed P4-billion transportation hub in Taguig City by at least a month to give prequalified bidders more time.
DOTC undersecretary Jose Perpetuo Lotilla issued General Bid Bulletin 15 – 2015 informing the prequalified bidders on the changes in the May 18 deadline for the Integrated Transport System (ITS) South Terminal project.
“In view of the final clearances that will have to be secured for the project, and in order to give prospective bidders ample time to prepare their submissions, the deadline of submission and opening of bids shall be moved from May 18 to 30 calendar days from the confirmation of the final version of bidding documents,” he said.
Lotilla pointed out that the final version of the bid documents approved by the agency’s Pre-Qualification Bids and Awards Committee (PBAC) could be accessed by the bidders in the data room in the DOTC website.
The DOTC has already prequalified Ayala Land Inc., Filinvest Land Inc. of taipan Andrew Gotianun, Datem Inc., and MWM Terminals led by Filipino-owned Megawide Construction Corp. for the PPP project last Dec. 10.
Earlier, DOTC assistant secretary for legal affairs Jaime Fortunato Caringal issued General Bid Bulletin 12 – 2015 moving the submission date for bid proposals for the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project to May 18 instead of June 1.
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The DOTC earlier deferred the submission of bids for the project to June 1 instead of April 13 in order to give the pre-qualified companies more time to prepare their proposals.
The PPP project is being undertaken by the DOTC under the Build-Transfer-Operate scheme of the Build-Operate-Transfer law. The concession period is 35 years.
After the submission of bid proposals, the DOTC would undertake a two-step evaluation wherein the technical proposals would first be evaluated after which the financial proposals of bidders who passed the technical evaluation would be opened and evaluated.
The DOTC said the bid amount could be in the form of an annual grantor payment wherein the government would pay the winning concessionaire to undertake the project, or in the form of annual concession payment to be paid by the concessionaire to the DOTC.
The 5.57-hectare South Terminal would connect passengers from the Laguna and Batangas side to other urban transport systems such as the proposed P288 billion North-South Commuter Rail of the Philippine National Railways, city buses, taxis, and other public utility vehicles that serve inner Metro Manila.
The project would include a passenger terminal building, arrival and departure bays, public information systems, ticketing and baggage holding facilities as well as park-ride facilities.
The DOTC earlier awarded P3.15 billion ITS -Southwest Terminal project along the Manila-Cavite Expressway (Cavitex) to Megawide-led MWM Terminals. It submitted an annual grantor payment of P100 million for the project, topping the P650 million annual grantor payment submitted by Filinvest Land.
However, the signing of the concession agreement originally scheduled last Feb. 25 hit a snag due to issues concerning the 4.59-hectare project site.
