The Transportation Department said Thursday it deferred by more than a month the bid submission for the operation and maintenance of Light Rail Transit Line 2.
Undersecretary Edwin Lopez, head of the department’s operations and public-private partnership implementation, said the deadline for submission of bids for LRT Line 2 O&M would be moved from Jan. 26 to March 8 “in order to prepare their bids.”
The agency earlier shortlisted Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. and SMRT Transport Solutions Consortium; D.M. Consunji Inc. and Tokyo Metro Co. Ltd. Consortium; Light Rail Manila Holdings 2 Inc. Consortium of Ayala Corp., Metro Pacific Investments Corp., RATP TRANSDEV Asia and RATPDevelopment SA; and San Miguel Holdings Corp. and Korea Railroad Corp. Consortium for the LRT operations and maintenance project.
The contract will last for 10 to 15 years, with the winning bidder given the right to maintain the existing 11 stations and the 4.2-kilometer Masinag extension. The government earlier awarded the construction of LRT 2 Masinag extension to DMCI for P2.27 billion.