AFTER much delay in the bidding process, the government scheduled a deadline on the submission of bids for the Light Rail Transit (LRT) 1 Cavite Extension and Operation and Maintenance (O and M). The Aquino admiistration closed the bidding last May 28.
The bidding has been postponed three times since last year. The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said that there were not enough bid submissions and there were “several unsettled issues.” The new deadline was set on April 2014 after bidding was put on hold in August 2013 after a bidding failure. In order to fast-track the process, the DOTC also removed the prequalification stage and merely required corporations to submit their qualification documents together with their technical and financial bids. However, in April 2014, the DOTC again postponed the submission of bids to May 28 because bidders insisted to have more time to include the design of the common station in their bids.
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