MPTC kicks off P8-B Lapu-Lapu Expressway phase 1 bidding

METRO PACIFIC Tollways Corp. (MPTC) has started the bidding process to select contractors for the first phase of its P8-billion Lapu-Lapu Expressway (LLEx) expansion, which is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2027.

- Ashley Erika O. Jose

"We are actually bidding it out now," MPTC President and Chief Executive Officer Gilbert Gabriel F. Santa Maria said at a recent media briefing.

"We have an alignment already, but one of the things we need to do is that a lot of it goes over the same alignment with an existing road. The feasibility is done. We acquired the concession rights, and there was already an approval to do this... We are just bidding it out to see which EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) contractors, or separate construction contractors, want to do this for us," he added.