Final 4 in P391 Million Baguio sports complex bid

Now they are down to four, City administrator Bonifacio dela Pena said that of the six contractors who placed their bid for the construction of the PhP391 million Baguio Youth Convergence and Sports Complex has been whittled down to four as final evaluation of the bids of are being determined and which of them has the best offer to construct a world class sports facility.
Dela Pena said that evaluation and announcement of the winning bidder will be known this month and construction will start before the end of the year to make avail of the PhP50 million the Department of Public Works and Highways allocated for it.
Dela Pena has reiterated that the winning bidder of the city’s most ambitious sports project yet will be up to the task in meeting the highest of quality by following international standards.
“We finally have the funds to bid out the project and we will implement it the soonest,” dela Pena said. Dela Pena said that the city had several consultations before finalizing the design of the five storey building’s design including that with the Philippine Sports Commission and its consultant architect Noel Elnar, chief architect in the building of the Clark sports complex used during the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.
Dela Pena earlier said that with PSC’s help they were “to revise the design prepared” by the City Building and Architect Office and “changed by PSC to comply with international standard.”
To be able to realize the design, he said the contractor must be the most qualified and “who has done a sports complex, and must show proof.” With PSC’s help, the city was able to reduce the cost from PhP450 million to PhP391 million or a PhP59 million savings. Dela Pena said two sports facilities in the Baguio athletic, the swimming pool and the oval are short of the international standard, the latter is three meters short to be exact.
These, he said, will be avoided as he assured quality for the projected building that will also house the Sangguniang Kabataan. Some areas of the building will house training area for several sports discipline especially where Baguio has made a name of.
Dela Pena said the building will have a parking facility located at the ground floor which can accommodate about 60 vehicles and 20 motorcycles.
The upper ground floor will house the convergence center for the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) where they will have offices, a multi-purpose hall, an auditorium and other required amenities for their activities.
The third floor will be a training ground for athletes of contact sports like boxing and taekwondo among others and other individual sports where local athletes have been known to excel.
“Our athletes from the Batang Pinoy need a venue to train and this is what the coaches asked for,” said dela Pena. The city was again the over-all winner in the last national Batang Pinoy held in August 2019. The fourth floor will have a six lane bowling alley and will be used as training ground for bowlers.
A basketball court will also be constructed on the fifth floor. It will be the first ever basketball court to be put up and managed by the city government for its athletes, the court will be at least five meter high atop the sports complex. In terms of height, it will be the highest compared to the other floors so that they can install posts that will only “carry the roofing.”
Dela Pena said that if it is done at the bottom, then the posts will carry the load of the upper floors. Elevators and escalators will be provided to get to the basketball court, while bleachers will be built also as this will be one of the more frequented facility within the sports complex.
Dela Peña said that while the use of the sports center and its amenities will be free of charge for the city’s athletes, charges will apply to other individuals as the facility is also eyed as a commercial enterprise.
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