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CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga: A Korean consortium, one of the two
qualified bidders in the privatization of 215-hectare prime Mimosa
Leisure Estate has filed a second motion for reconsideration before
the Board of Directors of the Clark Development Corp. (CDC).
Having been declared ineligible by the bidding
committee, officials of Hanwool I & D Corp. said through their
legal counsel that only the CDC Board of Directors has the final say
on the decision of the special committee on privatization in the
bidding of Mimosa.
Earlier, the committee declared the bid of
Hanwool as having “failed” for not having completed the required
bidding documents for submission.
Hanwool officials claimed that their proposal to
manage and operate Mimosa Estate is “not only the highest
calculated responsive bid but likewise the most beneficial and
economically viable whether it is evaluated on a short term or long
term basis.”
They added that their bid would ensure the
government to get most advantageous terms “as to redound to the
benefits of a greater number of people.”
Records showed that the CDC bidding committee
conducted on June 6 the opening of bidding documents on the
privatization project of Mimosa Estate.
Out of the 10 bidders that secured the bidding
documents, only two of them—Hanwool Corp. and Waterfront
Philippines, Inc. submitted the bid documents on time. The others
either did not arrive on time for the bidding or decided not to
participate anymore.
Both two bidders passed the eligibility check
and qualified for the opening of their technical proposals that were
sealed in three envelopes each.
The bidding committee adopted the three-envelop
system in which the envelopes were opened and examined one by one.
In the opening of the first two envelopes, both qualified after
determining that they contained the required and complete documents.
In the opening of the second envelopes, only the
one submitted by Waterfront Corp. was found with the complete
required bidding documents.
This resulted in the resolution of the bidding
committee to declare Waterfront as the winning bidder.
-- Mark Louie P. Roxas
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