DOTC sets deadline for bidders of ITS terminal

The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has given bidders vying for the contract to design and build the Intermodal Transport Terminal (ITS) in Taguig City up to end this month this proposals.

The DOTC has announced that the bid submission deadline for the

Integrated Transport System (ITS) South Terminal will be on July 31. The deadline was originally scheduled last May 18 but was suspended to give prospective bidders ample time to prepare their proposals.

Prequalified bidders include Ayala Land Inc., Datem Inc., Filinvest Land Inc. and MWM Terminals, which is the consortium between Megawide Construction Corp. and Walter Mart’s WM Property Management Property Management Inc.

The ITS South Terminal will be constructed within a 5.57 hectare lot within the Food Terminal Inc. (FTI) Complex in Taguig City. It will serve as a multi-modal transport terminal for those transiting from Metro Manila to provinces in the South like Laguna, Batangas and Bicol. MWM Terminals earlier won the

ITS Southwest Terminal Project, which will soon rise in Parañaque City near the Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway. However, it is not immediately clear if the consortium will submit bids for the South terminal.

“The location of ITS South Terminal is good but accessibility from South Luzon Expressway is not good,” Megawide chief financial officer Oliver Tan said.

“We are still doing our further analysis on the feasibility. The access to SLEX is the key,” he added.

Construction of ITS terminals is an offshoot of President Benigno Aquino’s Executive Order 67, instructing DOTC and other transportation government authorities to put up central bus terminals in the north, south and southwest of Metro Manila for provincial buses.

Unlike the South and Southwest Terminals, the North Terminal is far from roll out as government is still determining the final location of the intermodal facility.