By
Lenie Lectura - August 16, 2018
THE Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) will rebid the
Operation and Maintenance Service Contract (OMSC) for its Malaya thermal-power
plant (TPP) after it declared the previous auction a failure.
“The
first round of bidding for OMSC Malaya TPP
generated
two bidders. One bidder was disqualified during bid evaluation while the
lowest-ranking bidder was post qualified. We therefore declared failure of bidding,”
PSALM President Irene Joy Garcia said in a text message.
Mindoro
Grid Corp.’s P227.04-million bid bested the P258-million offer of Soosan
ENS Co. Ltd., the other bidder that participated in the bid opening activity
held on May 30.
The
current operator of the power plant is STX Marine Service Co. Ltd., whose
contract will expire on August 25, 2018.
Consequently,
PSALM decided to hold another auction. “Necessarily, we have commenced the
second round of bidding with the publication of our invitation to bid on August
8 and the conduct of prebid conference,” Garcia added.
In its
bid invite, PSALM approved a budget of P213 million for the second round of
procurement of the OMSC. PSALM has set a deadline for the submission of bids
until August 30. The bids will be opened on the same day. Bidding will be
conducted through open-competitive bidding procedures using a pass/fail
criterion.
During
the prebid conference held on August 15, Garcia said, “four firms attended.”
She did not identify the firms.
Interested
firms can purchase bid documents for P50,000.
The OMSC
contract is good for one year. Interested bidders should have completed a
contract similar to the project.
The
Malaya TPP is being managed by PSALM through an OMSC. Located in Pililla,
Rizal, the Malaya TPP was designated as a must-run unit (MRU) by the Department
of Energy in 2014. As an MRU, it is compelled to run and provide the needed
power supply as deemed necessary in order to ensure reliability of power supply
in the Luzon grid, particularly in times of supply shortfall, system security
and voltage support.
In 1995
it was rehabilitated by Korea Electric Power Corp. under a 15-year
rehabilitate-operate-manage-maintain agreement.
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