BCDA bids out SCTEX service areas

The state-owned Bases Conversion and DevelopmentAuthority (BCDA) announced  that it isbidding out two service areas along the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX)that is expected to enhance the convenience of motorists plying the 94-kilometer toll road.

BCDA President Arnel Paciano D. Casanova said the BCDAis now inviting interested bidders to bid for the long-term lease anddevelopment of two separate lots along the SCTEX that will be  developed as service areas.

“We are looking for partners todevelop the lots into service areas for the benefit of  the motorists plying the SCTEX,” Casanovasaid.

Casanova said the prescribedfacilities and amenities of a service area would include gasoline station, restrooms, sufficient and adequate parking slots, emergency First Aid station,potable water and lighting system, emergency vehicle repair shop andconvenience stores.

He said that each of the  two service areas namely  the Concepcion Service Area  andthe  Macangcung Service Area consist of   two hectares. The lots are located inBrgy. Santiago, Concepcion, Tarlac. The Concepcion Service Area is located at the Clark-bound/south-bounddirection of the  Clark-Tarlac segmentwhile the Macangcung Service Area is located at the  Clark-bound/north-bound direction of the  Clark-Tarlac segment.

Casanova said interested bidders couldopt to bid for both lots or just one.

According to Casanova, the lease term for eachlot shall be twenty-five years, renewable for another 25 years upon mutualagreement of the BCDA and the winning bidder.

For her part, BCDA chairperson of the AssetDisposition Program Committee Nena D. Radoc said  the minimum acceptablestarting annual Fixed Lease for each service area would be Two MillionTwo Hundred Forty Thousand Pesos, VAT-inclusive, effective onthe second year of lease and subject to an annual escalation of five percent.

She said that upon contract signing, the winning biddershould pay BCDA the Fixed Lease for the three years covering years 2 to 4 ofthe lease term.

Radoc added that starting on the fifth year of lease, the lease amount shall be thehigher of either the fixed lease, as adjusted based on five percent  escalation rate per annum, or sharein the revenues of the Lessee from its operations and sub-lessees’ revenues,equivalent to 2.5% of net sales plus 0.15% share of net sales of petroleumproducts and lubricants.

She said interested bidders could purchase theTerms of Reference (TOR) for a non-refundable fee of Fifty Thousand Pesos payableto BCDA in manager’s check from  08 to 19 August 2013 at the BCDA Corporate Center, 2^ndFloor Bonifacio Technology Center, 31^st Street, Crescent Park West,Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City. The TOR may also be viewed in the BCDA website at www.bcda.gov.ph.

She added that a Pre-Bid Conference, in which theproperty, TOR, and inquiries from interested bidders would be held on 20 August 2013, 10:00 a.m. at the BCDA Corporate Center.