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Seven foreign companies interested in Clark airport

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Seven international contractors signed up Tuesday to take part in the bidding process for the P12.5-billion Clark International Airport expansion project.

State-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority said two joint venture companies – First Balfour Inc. – Datem and Megawide Group Co. Ltd.; three Chinese contractors – China Harbour Engineering Co. Ltd., China State Construction Engineering Corp. and Qingjian Group Co. Ltd.; and two local construction firms with international engagements”•R-II Builders Inc. and Tokwing Construction Corp. – bought bid documents with the intention to participate in the official bidding eon Oct. 23, 2017.

The companies, however, expressed concern over the delays in the issuance of the environmental clearance certificate for the project.

BCDA senior vice president and president of the special bids and awards committee Joshua Bingcang said the agency was working with Environment Department to have the ECC released in a month’s time.

“I assure the bidders that the ECC will not be a cause of delay for the project. The Environment Department gave us assurance that the ECC will be issued at the right time,” he said.

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The new passenger terminal building will have an 8,000-passenger capacity to add to the old terminal’s capacity of 4,000 passengers.

The expansion project contract will also construct and install all required associated facilities – both landside and airside, to support the operations of the new terminal.

Based on the master development plan created by Aeroports de Paris Ingenierie, there will be three expansion phases leading to the ultimate master plan of increasing the capacity to 80 million passengers per annum.

The first phase is the creation of Terminal 2 with a capacity of 8 MPPA while the second phase envisions to double  the capacity of Terminal 2 to 16 MPPA and construct a new full service carrier terminal with a capacity of 6 MPPA using a two-runway system.

The third phase will further increase capacity to 46 MPPA by expanding the full service terminal carrier from 6 MPPA to 10 MPPA and creating a new low cost carrier terminal of 20 MPPA.

The ultimate master plan of 80 MPPA will construct another runway for a three-runway system.

BCDA is giving the project four years until 2020 to be fully completed under a turnkey and operation and management public-private partnership.

“We want both the expansion project contractor and the operation and management concessionaire to be on board by day 1 to minimize conflicts. In the end it will the lowest bid that we will approve but only after other qualifications are met,” said Bingcang.

The Clark International Airport New Terminal Building is expected to break ground in the fourth quarter of 2017 and to be completed in 2020.

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