The Republic of Philippines, through its Department of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), has re-scheduled the bid submission for its first PPP project, the Regional Prison Facilities.

The new deadline for the project is November 24, 2016 at 1:00 PM. 

The pre-qualified bidders for the project were informed through a General Bid Bulletin (GBB) signed by the Prequalification, Bids and Awards Committee (PBAC) Chairperson, Chief State Counsel Ricardo V. Paras III. 

According also to the published bid bulletin, the PBAC is open for queries and other requests from pre-qualified bidders.

There are three prequalified bidders for the project:

• Mega Structure Consortium, composed of Megawide Construction Corp, Citicore Holdings Investment and GMR Infrastructure.
• San Miguel Holdings Corp.
• DM Consunji, Inc.

The preferred bidder will design, finance, construct, and maintain during a 20-year period the prison facilities that will be constructed at the Philippine Army's Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija. The prison will have the capacity for 26,880 inmates. It will house 21,106 convicts from the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City and 2,016 inmates from the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong City, both of which are scheduled to be closed.

The project also involves the development of staff housing and administrative buildings, areas for rehabilitation (sports, work and religious activity), and will be installed with high security equipment. In addition the contract will include a number of building-related services such as laundry, waste treatment and disposal, sewage water treatment and power generation.

The total project investment is estimated at PHP50.2 billion (US$1.07 billion).

The prison will belong to the national prison system managed by the BuCOr under the DOJ. It is expected that the project will address the dire situation faced by existing penal facilities and create more humane prison conditions.