Department of Transportation(DOTr)

Good afternoon Sirs:
May we request for the following contracts of the LRT Line 1 extension project:
1. Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, and
2. Operation and Maintenance (O&M) contract.

thank you and hoping for your positive response on this.

best regards.

Dear Ma’am Kriscia,
The email request yesterday is just a follow-up from our first email request dated July 30, 2018. We also forwarded the EFOI auto response to DOTr Railways division last August 22 as instructed by a DOTr (rail and toll road) staff. In this regard, would it be possible to know if our request will be granted on a much sooner date?

Thank you and we look forward for your positive action.

Kind regards.

Lerma G. Torres

Your request is denied due to the requested documents fall under the inventory of exceptions as stipulated in the Section 4 of E.O. No. 2 (s. 2016).

Specifically, the exception is under 5a, which states, “Information. Documents or record known by reason of official capacity and are deemed as confidential, including those submitted or disclosed by entities to government agencies, tribunals, boards, or officers, in relation to the performance of their functions, or to inquiries or investigation conducted by them in the exercise of their administrative, regulatory or quasi-judicial powers, such as but not limited to the following:
a.	Trade secrets, intellectual property, business, commercial, financial and other proprietary information;”

Per Concession Agreement, the operations and maintenance of LRT 1 is under the management of Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), which is a joint venture company of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation’s Metro Pacific Light Rail Corporation (MPLRC), Ayala Corporation’s AC Infrastructure Holdings Corporation (AC Infra), and the Philippine Investment Alliance for Infrastructure’s Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings (Philippines) PTE Ltd. (MIHPL). 

Per LRMC, the EPC and O&M contracts are considered sensitive commercial documents, thus, they cannot share them.

Thank you.

DOTR-DM