A total of 23 projects, with an overall tentative cost of at least P66.33 billion, has been added to the government’s pipeline of public-private partnership (PPP) projects.
According to documents from the PPP Center shared with reporters late last week, as of October 16, the government has lined up 173 projects valued at P3.17 trillion.
The updated list saw an increase in terms of the number of projects versus the July 23 report where there are 164 projects in the pipeline.
The total estimated cost, however, is slightly lower versus the P3.24 trillion in July.
The change in the number of projects in the pipeline is due to the addition of projects, particularly unsolicited proposals endorsed by the PPP Center to implementing agencies for their decision to proceed with detailed evaluation or rejection of the same, projects included in the list of PPP projects submitted by implementing agencies to the PPP Center and project updates received through PPP Center’s engagement with various implementing agencies; as well as the delisting of PPP projects.
According to the document, those added to the list were comprised of 10 national projects and 13 local projects.
These include the P160-million Food and Drug License and Clearance System, P7.21 billion Combined 17 megawatt (MW) Upper Sampaloc and 8MW Lower Sampaloc Hydroelectric Power Project, P29.82 billion Design Build Finance Operate the Air Navigation Services (Air Traffic Service and Air Navigation Service) of the Philippines, P360-million Santiago City Hemodialysis Center, P730-million Operations and Maintenance of Pampanga Dialysis Centers Project, P60-million Operation and Maintenance of Palayan City Hospital, P320-million Philippine Retirement Agency Digitalization Project, P8.45 billion Iloilo Bulk Water Supply Project, P1.47- billion San Juan — Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino, P790-million South-Luzon Integrated Terminal Exchange Project, P70-million Mariano Marcos State University 2MWp Solar PV System, P4.24 billion Marinduque Decarbonization Project, P800 million Comprehensive Provincial Waste Management and Carbon Capture System Utilizing Bio-Methanation No-Burn Project, P23-million Dasmariñas City Digitalized Traffic Enforcement System, P10-million GMA Cavite Digitalized Traffic Enforcement, P9.6 billion Electronic Invoicing and Tax Engine Systems Project, P20-million Butuan City Digitalized Traffic Enforcement and P2.2 billion Nuclear Medicine Research and Innovation Center.
The costs for the following five added projects are yet to be determined: Subdivision and Housing Program in Barangay Ordovilla and Bethel, Victoria Oriental Mindoro, Cavite Bulk Water Supply Project, Public-Private Partnership for School Infrastructure Project Phase III, Poro Point Seaport Modernization Project and Department of Education-Senate Teacher’s City.
Meanwhile, the following 12 projects were delisted following coordination with the appropriate implementing agencies: P94.07 billion Metro Cebu Expressway, P390- million Road Transport IT Infrastructure Project Phase II, P4.34 billion Financing, Upgrade, Design and Development, and Operation and Maintenance of the Philippine Identification System, P180-million First Phase: Underground Cabling Project P45.15 billion Development of the Former Manila Seedling Site Project and the P20-million Smart City ICT Project in New Clark City.
The following projects, with costs yet to be determined, were also removed: Pangasinan-Nueva Ecija Expressway, Dingalan-Capas-Botolan Expressway, Mindoro-Batangas Super Bridge, the Pacific Eastern Seaboard Expressway Infanta – Atimonan Segment, City College Canteen / Cafeteria Concession and Criminology Firing Range.
Meanwhile, other movements in the list of projects include the Philippine Economic Zone Authority Central System Project, which was removed from the pipeline database following its award and the signing of the concession agreement on September 3 as the project is now reflected in the PPP Center database of projects under implementation with an estimated project cost of P250 million.
The La Mesa Parkways Project, with an estimated cost of P7.8 billion, was also removed from the pipeline database following information received from the implementing agency and as verified by PPP Center — Project Monitoring Division the project is under implementation and is eflected in the PPP Center database of projects under implementation under the name North Luzon East Expressway (La Mesa Parkways Project) with an estimated project cost of P15.1 billion.
