Four bids in for CALAX PPP project
Date
June 03, 2014
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The Philippine Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has announced that it has received four bids for the P35.42-billion (around US$800 million) Cavite Laguna Expressway (CALAX).
In mid-May the DPWH extended the bid submission for CALAX to June 2. The original deadline was on April 21, but the agency moved it to May 21.
The four bids were submitted by the four qualified bidders for the project:
- Alloy MTD Philippines, owned by Malaysia's second-largest toll-road operator,
- Team Orion: formed by AC Infrastructure Holdings Inc., Aboitiz Land Inc., Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings Philippines, Bouygues Travaux, Egis Road Operations and Korea Expressway Corp.;
- Consortium of Metro Pacific Tollways Development Corporation (MPTDC) and Leighton Contractors (Philippines) Inc.; and
For the CALAX project, the private partner shall finance, design, construct, operate and maintain the 47 kilometers close-system toll expressway starting from the existing Cavite Expressway (CAVITEX) and ending at South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) Mamplasan Interchange in Binan, Laguna. This covers the 28.9 km Cavite Section from Kawit to Silang and the 18.1 km Laguna Section from Silang to SLEX.
CALAX is the DPWH's third and biggest infrastructure project under the government's public-private partnership (PPP) program with a project cost of 35.42 billion pesos (US$806 million).
The first project, the Daang Hari-SLEX, was awarded to the Ayala group, while the second, the NAIA Expressway, went to Optimal Infrastructure.
