BAGUIO CITY – The city government is set to award the PHP1.19-billion Baguio City Integrated Terminal (BCIT) project to Megawide Construction Corporation after the public-private partnership pre-qualification, bids and awards committee (PPP-PBAC) confirmed that no competing proposals were submitted before the October 14 deadline.

The PBAC, through Resolution No. 1-2025, formally recommended to Mayor Benjamin Magalong the awarding of the project to Megawide.

City Treasurer and PBAC chair Alex Cabarrubias said the decision was made following the completion of the comparative challenge process, which ran from July 16 to October 14.

“No competing proposals were submitted during the comparative challenge process, prompting the PBAC's unanimous recommendation to award the project to Megawide,” Cabarrubias said.

Megawide, the same firm that developed the Paranaque Integrated Terminal Exchange in Metro Manila, earlier submitted an unsolicited proposal for the BCIT, which is designed to decongest Baguio’s central business district by serving as the main terminal for provincial buses and public utility vehicles entering the city.

It will also accommodate local jeepneys, modernized jeepneys and taxis.

The planned terminal will be located in Barangay Dontogan, along Marcos Highway, designed to accommodate up to 400 buses per day.

The site is a five-hectare land currently under a usufruct agreement between the Baguio City government and the Bureau of Animal Industry-Department of Agriculture.

It will feature key facilities such as ticketing booths, comfortable waiting areas, clean restrooms with diaper-changing and lactation stations, commercial parking, and park-and-go services.

Once operational, the BCIT will serve as the final stop for provincial buses, preventing them from entering the central business district.

Megawide is expected to complete the intermodal terminal within two years. 

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