Megawide-GMR Consortium bags Clark Airport expansion PPP

The consortium of Megawide Construction Corp. and Bangalore-based GMR Infrastructure Ltd. has bagged the contract for the Clark International Airport expansion project.

The group is set to break ground for the project on Wednesday.

The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) along with the Department of Transportation awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction contract to the Megawide-GMR Consortium.

“Megawide-GMR was declared as the bidder with the ‘lowest calculated responsive bid’, after passing the post-qualification evaluation phase of the competitive bidding— besting four other bidders for the design, engineering and construction of the new Clark terminal building,” the BCDA said on Tuesday.

With a P9.36-billion financial proposal for the expansion project, Megawide-GMR won the bidding against other companies. The government initially estimated the project to cost P12.55 billion.

The other bidders were China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited, China Harbour Engineering Company Limited, Sinohydro Corporation Limited, and the consortium of Tokwing Construction Corporation and China Machinery Engineering Corporation.

The project will be done as a public-private partnership (PPP) initiative and implemented by the BCDA.

It involves the construction of a new passenger terminal building of the airport which can handle up 8 million passengers per year.

“The Clark International Airport is envisioned to be Asia’s next premier gateway, and is expected to help decongest the Ninoy Aquino International Airport,” the BCDA said.

“It is one of the high-impact projects under the Build, Build, Build Infrastructure Program, and complements Clark which is currently being developed as the next investment center in Asia," it added. — Jon Viktor Cabuenas/VDS, GMA News