THE GOVERNMENT has added the resubmitted air navigation proposal of ComClark Network and Technology Corp., controlled by Dennis Anthony H. Uy, along with 52 new projects, to the public-private partnership (PPP) pipeline.
In a document sent to reporters, the PPP Center said the unsolicited P31.55-billion PPP for the Entire Air Navigation Services in the Philippines project has been added the pipeline but remains under evaluation by its implementing agency.
The proponents are the consortium of ComClark Network and Technology Corp., JG Summit Infrastructure Holdings, and Asia’s Emerging Dragon Corp.
The previous ComClark proposal, valued at P29.82 billion, to manage the Philippine air navigation, traffic, and control system, was rejected last year.
Overall, the PPP Center said the pipeline is now at 230 projects valued at P2.61 trillion as of June 18.
According to the PPP Center, five of the new projects are unsolicited, including the P930-million Kingsfield Gold and Leisure Cebu project, proposed by Cebu Kingsfield Holdings Corp. in partnership with the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority.
Also, among the unsolicited proposals is the P790-million Iloilo General Hospital project of Professional Services, Inc.; and the P190-million Tabaco, Albay housing development submitted by the local government and private proponent Legazpi Premium Development Corp.
The PPP Center said 41 of the projects in the pipeline were solicited PPPs of the Philippine Ports Authority.
This includes the Bidding for the Management and Operations of Cargo Handling and Other Port Related Services for various ports, such as General Santos, Balingoan and Jasaan in Misamis Oriental, Romblon and Ambulong, Tablas and Carmen, Nasugbu, San Juan, Roxas, Mansalay and Bulalacao.
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) submitted the New Clark City (NCC) Information and Communications Technology Passive Infrastructure Project.
This P2.8-billion project will install a “resilient, cost-efficient, and ubiquitous” Information and Communications Technology infrastructure and services across NCC to support smart urban development.
The BCDA’s Clark Integrated Transport System was also added to the pipeline. The bus rapid transit system will run for about 60 kilometers from the airport to the city’s main gates and onward to the Clark Freeport Zone.
Other projects include the P25-billion Development of a Telecommunications Satellite, and the separate P7-billion Constellation of Earth Observation Satellites of the Philippine Space Agency were added to the pipeline.
Also joining were the P740-million Bureau of Customs Processing System and P210-million Philippine Postal Corp. Public-Private Partnership and Postal Identity Card proposal.
Nine projects were delisted, led by the Operation and Maintenance with Improvement and Expansion Arrangement of the Port of General Santos project (P5.2 billion), the Bataan Emerging Gateways City (P4.94 billion), the Baguio-Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino Program (P4.35 billion), and the Manila Central Post Office (MCPO) project (P1.5 billion).
Other delisted projects included the Mariano Marcos State University 2-MWp Solar PV System, the Mariveles Dialysis Center, and the Bataan Rooftop Microgrid Project.
The Development of Water Supply System for the Municipality of Mangatarem was also delisted after moving forward to the implementation stage. — Aubrey Rose A. Inosante