{"id":30017,"date":"2014-10-30T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30017"},"modified":"2014-10-30T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T11:08:09","slug":"govt-to-rebid-mrt-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/30\/govt-to-rebid-mrt-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to rebid MRT contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23999\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT3_Shaw2-URBANRAIL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23999\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT3_Shaw2-URBANRAIL-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"MRT3 Shaw Boulevard Station (Photo courtesy of UrbanRail)\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT3_Shaw2-URBANRAIL-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT3_Shaw2-URBANRAIL.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MRT3 Shaw Boulevard Station (Photo courtesy of UrbanRail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Following its failed auction this week, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is eyeing to revise the bidding terms of the three-year maintenance contract worth P2.25-billion for the Metro Rail Transit Line 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is likely we will improve the terms based on the feedback that we get,\u201d Michael Sagcal, DOTC spokesperson said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The auction failed after the present bidding terms drew no offer from the five groups that had earlier expressed interest in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The group included South Korea\u2019s Busan Metro, Mosa-Inekon and a unit of DMCI Holdings Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DOTC undersecretary Jose Perpetuo Lotilla, chairman of the bids and awards committee said that the bidders will still be filing their concerns through writing.<\/p>\n<p>Sagcal revealed that the some of the interested groups were asking for a one-month extension in the deadline for bid submission.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was not granted since the deadline had already been moved to a later date several times, according to Sagcal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Following its failed auction this week, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is eyeing to revise the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3837,1349],"class_list":["post-30017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bidding","tag-mrt","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017","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=30017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}