MANILA - Trick-or-treat aint over yet if we follow the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) timetable. The agency just made the contract for the P17.5 billion Mactan Cebu International Airport New Passenger Terminal Project sweeter. In a special bid bulletin, the DOTC said the agency added provisions to the concession agreement after a series of consultations with the seven bidders. Hereunder are the new provisions to the contract: - Warranty on the existing Mactan Cebu Airport structures and buildings for one year, under which DOTC will ensure the existing assets are structurally sound for purposes of their current use and operation; - In case this proves to be incorrect based on a performance-based appraisal conducted by a reputable structural engineering firm (mutually acceptable by the grantors and the concessionaire), the reasonable costs of the inclusion of additional works, provision of services or responsibilities for the purpose of ensuring the structural soundness of the structures and buildings comprising the existing assets shall be for the account of the grantors; - The Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) will undertake a timely amendment of the provisions of Administrative Order No.2, Series of 2011 to enable the concessionaire to charge other apron fees. The winning concessionaire however will undertake public consultation, prior to and in the course of determining the rates for other apron charges; Prior to the above, DOTC earlier made the following changes to the concession agreement: - The grantors or any government agency are prohibited from constructing and operating any new international or domestic airport for handling scheduled commercial passenger traffic in Mactan and Cebu islands at any time before the end of the 25th contract year (up from 20 years) or when the passenger traffic reaches 20 million passengers for three years, whichever is later; - The government is prohibited from upgrading any existing domestic airport within the Mactan and Cebu islands to international status; - The government however is not restricted from developing other means of transportation, any new and existing airports catering to chartered flights only, and airports that may be established in the islands of Bantayan and Camotes – both in the province of Cebu; - The grantors or any government agency are prohibited at any time to construct or cause to be constructed any competing commercial car parking facility or any competing hotel facilities on the land under the control of MCIAA within a radius of 500 meters from the perimeter of the project land; and - The grantor or any government authority however may construct or cause to be constructed car parking facilities for the exclusive use of officials and employees of the MCIAA or any government authority rendering services at the existing airport. Should the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) approve the changes to the contract, then the DOTC Bids and Awards Committee would inform the bidders of the new terms before submission of offers. DOTC set the deadline for submission of bids on November 15. DOTC said the seven prequalified bidders are MPIC-JGS Airport Consortium, AAA Airport Partners, Filinvest-CAI Consortium, SMC-Incheon Airport Consortium, First Philippine Airports Consortium, Premier Airport Group and GMR Infrastructure-Megawide Consortium. These groups have tapped airport operators from South Korea, Singapore, the US, France, New Zealand, Switzerland and India. One of the Aquino administrations public-private partnership (PPP) ventures, the project involves the construction of a new world-class international passenger terminal building in MCIA, with a capacity of about eight million passengers per year; renovation and expansion of the existing terminal; installation of all the required equipment; and the operation of both new and existing facilities. When this new international terminal building is completed, the existing terminal, which caters to both domestic and international passengers, will then be converted into an exclusively domestic passenger terminal.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 07:21:18 +0000
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