MANILA - Tokyo-based Sojitz Corp. has joined the list of companies interested in bidding for the Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects worth P108.2 billion covering five regional airports.
PPP Center executive director Cosette Canilao said six companies have expressed interest in the bidding of five regional airport projects being undertaken by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).
Aside from Sojitz, Canilao said other companies that bought bid documents include the tandem of Metro Pacific Investments Corp., JG Summit Holdings Inc., San Miguel Corp. (SMC), the GMR-Megawide Group, Philippine Skylanders, and the Aboitiz Group.
As a general trading company, the Sojitz Group is engaged in buying, selling, importing, and exporting goods, manufacturing and selling products, providing services, and planning and coordinating projects in Japan and overseas. It also invests in various sectors and conducts financing activities.
The group is involved in a broad range of sectors including aerospace, automobiles, plants, energy, mineral resources, chemicals, foodstuff resources, agricultural and forestry resources, consumer goods, and industrial parks.
The DOTC has divided the five regional airports into two bundles so as to attract more investors in the dual-stage bidding process.
The first bundle consists of the P20.26 billion Bacolod – Silay airport and the P14.62 billion Laguindingan airport while the second bundle covers the P40.57 billion Davao airport, the P30.4 billion Iloilo airport, and the P2.34 billion New Bohol (Panglao) airport.
The government is extending the May 18 deadline to give interested companies more time to prepare their qualification documents.
The regional airports projects are part of the 13 PPP projects worth P400.8 billion so far rolled out by the Aquino administration.
PPP projects that have been rolled out include the P123 billion Laguna Lakeshore expressway dike project, the rebidding of the P55.51 billion Cavite – Laguna expressway, the P50.2 billion regional prisons facility, the P24.4 billion Bulacan Bulk Water Supply project, the P18.72 billion New Centennial Water Source – Kaliwa dam project, the P17 billion Davao Sasa port modernization project, the P4 billion integrated transport system – South Terminal and the operation and maintenance of the Light Rail Transit line 2 (LRT-2).
The Aquino administration has already awarded nine PPP projects since 2010 with a total indicative cost of P136.37 billion.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/05/10/15/japanese-firm-eyes-regional-airport-projects
PPP Center executive director Cosette Canilao said six companies have expressed interest in the bidding of five regional airport projects being undertaken by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).
Aside from Sojitz, Canilao said other companies that bought bid documents include the tandem of Metro Pacific Investments Corp., JG Summit Holdings Inc., San Miguel Corp. (SMC), the GMR-Megawide Group, Philippine Skylanders, and the Aboitiz Group.
As a general trading company, the Sojitz Group is engaged in buying, selling, importing, and exporting goods, manufacturing and selling products, providing services, and planning and coordinating projects in Japan and overseas. It also invests in various sectors and conducts financing activities.
The group is involved in a broad range of sectors including aerospace, automobiles, plants, energy, mineral resources, chemicals, foodstuff resources, agricultural and forestry resources, consumer goods, and industrial parks.
The DOTC has divided the five regional airports into two bundles so as to attract more investors in the dual-stage bidding process.
The first bundle consists of the P20.26 billion Bacolod – Silay airport and the P14.62 billion Laguindingan airport while the second bundle covers the P40.57 billion Davao airport, the P30.4 billion Iloilo airport, and the P2.34 billion New Bohol (Panglao) airport.
The government is extending the May 18 deadline to give interested companies more time to prepare their qualification documents.
The regional airports projects are part of the 13 PPP projects worth P400.8 billion so far rolled out by the Aquino administration.
PPP projects that have been rolled out include the P123 billion Laguna Lakeshore expressway dike project, the rebidding of the P55.51 billion Cavite – Laguna expressway, the P50.2 billion regional prisons facility, the P24.4 billion Bulacan Bulk Water Supply project, the P18.72 billion New Centennial Water Source – Kaliwa dam project, the P17 billion Davao Sasa port modernization project, the P4 billion integrated transport system – South Terminal and the operation and maintenance of the Light Rail Transit line 2 (LRT-2).
The Aquino administration has already awarded nine PPP projects since 2010 with a total indicative cost of P136.37 billion.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/05/10/15/japanese-firm-eyes-regional-airport-projects
