Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star)
- January 31, 2020 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — State-run
Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) is bidding out the
one-year operation and maintenance service contract (OMSC) for the
650-megawatt (MW) Malaya thermal power plant in Rizal.
PSALM published an invitation,
soliciting offers to operate and maintain the power project for one year.
The agency manages the thermal power
plant through an OMSC.
The contract has an approved budget
of P224.8 million, to be sourced through PSALM’s 2020 and 2021 corporate
operating budgets.
Under the terms of reference,
interested bidders are required to have completed a similar contract of
operation and maintenance of either diesel, oil or coal-fired thermal power
plant, with generation output delivered to a national grid.
PSALM said bidding would be
conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a non-discretionary
“pass/fail” criterion.
A pre-bid conference is set on Feb.
4 while qualified bidders have until Feb. 17 to submit their offers.
Last year, Korean firm Soosan ENS
Co. Ltd. bagged the operation and maintenance contract.
Part of the responsibilities under
the service contract include the day-to-day upkeep, management and maintenance
or repair of the power plant and its equipment.
The OMSC will be bid out annually
until MTPP is privatized. PSALM is targeting to rebid the power asset within
the year.
Currently, MTPP is designated as a
must run unit by the Department of Energy to address supply deficiency when
operating power plants in the grid suddenly bog down or become
unavailable.
Located in Pililia, Rizal, it
consists of a 300-MW unit with a once-through type boiler and a 350-MW unit
fitted with a conventional boiler. However, only the second unit is working.
It was last rehabilitated in 1995 by
Korea Electric Power Corp. under a 15-year rehabilitate-operate-manage-maintain
agreement.
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