By Lenie Lectura - April 25, 2018
THE Power Sector Assets and
Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corp. is soliciting bids for the operation and
management (O&M) of the Malaya Thermal Power Plant pending the facility’s
privatization.
“PSALM now invites bids for the
procurement of the OMSC or the Operation and Management Service Contract for
the 650-megawatt [MW] Malaya thermal-power plant. Delivery of goods and
services is required for one year upon effectivity of the contract,” the bid
invite said.
PSALM intends to apply P264 million
as the approved budget for the contract (ABC) for the OMSC to procure the
O&M for the Malaya plant.
The bidder, PSALM said, must have
completed a single contract similar to the project. The value is adjusted, if
necessary, by the bidder to current prices using the Philippine Statistics
Authority consumer price index, and must be at least 50 percent of the ABC.
A contract similar to the project
involves services of a similar nature and complexity as to the operation and
maintenance of either diesel, oil or coal-fired power plant.
Bidding will be conducted through an
open competitive bidding process using a nondiscriminatory pass/fail
criterion. It will be held on May 15, with a pre-bid conference
scheduled on May 2. Interested bidders can already purchase the bidding
documents.
Situated in Pililia, Rizal
province, the Malaya plant was rehabilitated in 1995 by the Korea Electric
Power Corp. under a 15-year rehabilitate-operate-manage-maintain agreement. It
consists of a 300-MW unit with a once-through type boiler and a 350-MW unit
fitted with a conventional boiler.
Malaya currently serves as a
security plant as it was designated as a Must Run Unit (MRU) meant to address
any instability or supply deficiency that may occur as a result
of sudden unavailability of any operating power plants in the grid.
The MTPP will continue
operating as an MRU until it is privatized.
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