Bid for airport to begin

METRO MANILA - The Department of Transportation and Communications will start evaluating proposals from construction firms that will submit the lowest bids for the rehabilitation of the Maasin City Domestic Airport project in an auction this July 16 said a DOTC official.

According to Transportation Undersecretary Jose Perpetua Lotilla who is also the DOTC Chairman of the Bids and Awards Committee the lowest bidders' proposals will be evaluated after the bidding.

"The financial proposals will be evaluated based on the financial proposal they have submitted" said Lotilla. He added that the process could take a few weeks.

"We will check if the things the bidders were saying in their bids are true, and this would involve site evaluation and company background checks."

Should the lowest bid fail our evaluation Lotilla said the department would consider the second lowest bidder.

The Maasin Airport development project is estimated to cost P43.4 million and involves the construction of a runway extension and the removal of the hill blocking the airport runway.

The auction for the airport rehabilitation project was supposed to have been held last July 5.

SEAIR and Cebu Pacific have expressed interest in starting commercial flights from the airport to Manila and Cebu. (By RUEVIVAR "WOWIE" REYES)

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