Megawide Construction and India-based airport operator GMR Infrastructure have won a contract for the expansion of Clark International Airport in the Philippines.
The contract was awarded by the Philippines Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and the Department of Transportation.
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The contract covers the engineering, procurement, and construction of a new terminal. The airport will see an additional eight million passengers each year from the new terminal building.
Construction of the Clark International Airport’s new terminal building will be a public-private partnership (PPP) project, which is expected to start this week. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2020.
The government estimated the project to cost PHP12.55bn ($248.7m). However, the Megawide-GMR partnership won the contract by offering the lowest financial proposal at PHP9.36bn ($185.5m).
Other bidders for the Clark Airport expansion project include China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China Harbour Engineering Company, and the consortium of Tokwing Construction Corporation and China Machinery Engineering Corporation.
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By GlobalDataUpon becoming operational, the Clark International Airport will help decongest the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila.
The expansion is one of the high-impact projects under the Duterte administration’s ambitious ‘Build, Build, Build Infrastructure Programme’. Other projects include the Subic-Clark Cargo Railway, Manila-Clark Railway, and the New Clark City.
Previously, the Megawide-GMP partnership was awarded the first PPP project for expanding, operating and maintaining the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in the Philippines.
