{"id":17988,"date":"2014-07-03T19:17:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17988"},"modified":"2014-07-03T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:17:23","slug":"palace-conducting-review-of-smcs-bid-for-calax-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/03\/palace-conducting-review-of-smcs-bid-for-calax-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace conducting review of SMC\u2019s bid for CALAX project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11519\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, July 3 (PNA) &#8212; Malacanang is reviewing the appeal of conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) to reconsider its bid for the P35.4-billion Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX) project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn accordance with Administrative Order No. 22, the Office of the President (OP), through the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs, is now conducting a review of the appeal made with respect to this particular project,\u201d said Presidential Communication Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>SMC\u2019s Optimal Infrastructure Development Inc. has filed a motion before the OP to reconsider its bid for the CALAX project.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center rejected an earlier appeal from Optimal, insisting that the conglomerate did not follow the rules for the bidding.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Coloma said the government reconsidered such appeal because of the prevailing AO No. 22 that prescribed rules and regulations governing appeals to the OP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsinasagawa pa po \u2018yung pag-aaral. Hintayin na lang po natin ang rekomendasyon at aksyon hinggil dito,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The CALAX involves the financing, design and construction, operation and maintenance of the entire four-lane, 47-kilometer closed-system tolled expressway connecting Cavite Expressway and South Luzon Expressway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, July 3 (PNA) &#8212; Malacanang is reviewing the appeal of conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) to reconsider its bid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[6365,4154,6364],"class_list":["post-17988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-calax-project","tag-palace","tag-review-of-smcs-bid","mauthors-leslie-d-venzon","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}