The Department of Transportation on Thursday said the bidding of the P171-billion contract to rehabilitate, optimize and maintain the Ninoy Aquino International Airport received interest from at least five potential bidders.
DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista said he is “not only optimistic, but extremely optimistic” that the NAIA bidding would be a success after several failed auctions in the past administrations.
Spark 888 Management Inc. and Asian Airport Consortium are the latest groups to buy bid documents for the project. The DOTr did not provide more details on the identity of the two firms.
The other groups that earlier purchased bid documents were San Miguel Corp., India’s GMR Group and the Manila International Airport Consortium.
San Miguel is building the P734-billion New Manila International Airport in Bulacan, while GMR is the largest private airport operator in Asia and among the largest globally, handling passengers in excess of 100 million annually and a partner of Megawide Corp. for the Mactan Cebu International Airport.
MIAC is composed of AC Infrastructure Holdings Corp., Aboitiz InfraCapital, Asia’s Emerging Dragon Corp., Alliance Global-Infracorp Development Inc., Filinvest Development Corp. and JG Summit Infrastructure Holdings Corp.
The DOTr and the Manila International Airport Authority began inviting interested parties on Aug. 23 to participate in a single-stage competitive bidding process for a rehabilitate-operate-expand-transfer modality, in accordance with the Build-Operate-and-Transfer Law and its revised 2022 implementing rules and regulations.