Deadline for Cavite-Laguna tollroad bids moved

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The new deadline is to give interested bidders time to adjust to revised guidelines set by the DPWH

LINKING ROADS. The Cavite-Laguna Expressway project gets a bidding extension. Photo from Cavitex's Facebook page

MANILA, Philippines – For the 3rd time, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) postponed the deadline of submission of bids for the P35.4-billion Cavite-Laguna Expressway.

The deadline is now June 2 instead of May 21. The original deadline for submission of bids was January 20. 

DPWH assistant secretary Eugenio Pipo Jr said the move was to allow interested bidders more time to prepare documents, especially after the department made changes to the original requirements.

“In response to the request for additional time to prepare, complete, and finalize all bid documents, the bid proposal submission date is move from May 21 to June 2,” Pipo stated in Special Bid Bulletin No 33 dated May 9.

An earlier bulletin relayed changes to the guidelines requiring bidders to submit a bid in the form of the viability gap funding (VGP) or subsidy not exceeding P5 billion or a bid that would be paid to the government as concession payment.

The original guidelines used toll fee per kilometer for Class 1 vehicles in 2018 as basis for the bid. 

In case of bids in the form of concession payment, DPWH said it would not impose a ceiling to the amount submitted by bidders.

The new requirements ensure that bidders who offer a premium instead of asking for a subsidy are likely to win the Public-Private Partnership project.

“If all bidders with complying proposals require VGF, the bid amount of the bidder with the lowest required VGF shall be considered as the best complying bid.

“If one or more of the bidders with complying financial proposals submit a bid amount consisting of concession payment to the DPWH, the bid amount that offers the highest concession payment shall be considered the best complying bid,” the DPWH said.

The agency emphasized that bidders who submit a combination of both VGF and concession payment as well as conditional bids “shall be deemed non-responsive and shall not be accepted.”

Four groups have been pre-qualified by the DPWH including the Ayala-led Team Orion, Optimal Infrastructure Development Inc of San Miguel Corporation (SMC), MPCALA Holdings Inc belonging to infrastructure conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), and Malaysia ’s Alloy MTD Philippines.

Expressway projects

The Cavite-Laguna Expressway is a 47-kilometer closed-system toll expressway that will connect the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) and Manila Cavite Tollroad Expressway (Cavitex).

Starting from the Cavitex in Kawit, Cavite, this 4-lane expressway will end at the SLEX-Mamplasan Interchange in Biñan, Laguna.

It will have a concession period of 35 years including design and construction.

This is the 3rd PPP expressway project of the DPWH that was bid out under the Aquino administration. The P2-billion Daang Hari-SLEX link project was the first. It is expected to be ready by June 2015.

The second was the P15.5-billion Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) expressway, which is under construction at the moment. – Rappler.com

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