MacroAsia keen on Sangley bid

Lucio Tan’s MacroAsia Corp. is teaming up with potential partners for its bid for the development of Sangley airport into a world-class international gateway.

MacroAsia president Joseph Chua said the company is likely to team up with other companies to come up with a potential bid for the airport project.

“Definitely it’s a big project. We won’t do it alone,” Chua said.

“They extended the bidding deadline so that gives us more time to line up the proper...the consortium,” he said.

MacroAsia, through its wholly owned subsidiary MacroAsia Properties Development Corp., was one of the seven companies that bought bid documents for the Sangley Point International Airport Project.

The others were Metro Pacific Investments Corp., Prime Asset Ventures Inc. of real estate magnate and former senator Manuel Villar Jr., Philippine Airport Ground Solutions Inc., Langham Properties Inc., Chinese Communications Construction Co., and Mosveldtt Law Offices. Megawide Construction Corp. accessed the documents through another party who bought it on their behalf.

Deadline to submit proposals has now been moved to Dec. 17 due to the request for extension by the bidders, according to Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla.

MacroAsia chief financial officer Amador Sendin said the company is among those who sought for the submission deadline to be moved to a later date.

He said the company is likely to submit a bid.

“We are working on the bid,” Sendin said.

The Tan empire is also involved in the plan to rehabilitate, operate, and expand the congested Ninoy Aquino International Airport.