The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said on Thursday that all seven groups vying for the first airport project to be bid out under President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s public-private artnership (PPP) program have successfully prequalified.
The announcement, which was made four days ahead of schedule, showed that the P17.5-billion Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) Passenger Terminal Building Project will be contested by the following groups: AAA Airport Partners, led by the Ayala and Aboitiz groups and Houston airport operator ADC&HAS; Filinvest-CAI Consortium of the Gotianuns and Singapore’s Changi Airport; First Philippine Airports of the Lopez group and New Zealand’s Infratil Asia Ltd. airport operator; GMR Infrastructure and Megawide Consortium, which includes India’s Delhi Airport’s operator; MPIC-JGS Airport Consortium, composed of the Pangilinan and Gokongwei companies, as well as France’s Aeroports de Lyon; SM-led Premier Airport Group, which includes Switzerland’s Zurich Airport operators; and San Miguel Corp.-Incheon Airport Consortium, led by the SMC conglomerate and the operator of South Korea’s Incheon Airport.
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