DOTC awards P13-M contract to upgrade airport instruments

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has tapped Domestic Trading Corp. to upgrade meteorological instruments in four key airports nationwide.

Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya has approved the issuance of notice of award to Domestic Trading based on the findings of the agency’s Bids and Awards Committee (BAC).

The approved budget for the project was P16 million but Domestic Trading offered to undertake the project involving the procurement of meteorological instruments for various airports for only P12.89 million.

Domestic Trading has one year from the issuance of the notice to proceed to complete the upgrade of meteorological instruments in the airports in Dipolog, Roxas, Ozamis and Busuanga.

The company provides instruments to monitor and measure environmental parameters for determining the quality of municipal drinking water to the amount of rainfall in the clouds.

Domestic Trading has the reagents, kits and instruments that give the most accurate and precise information to its customers.

Brands carried by the company include Hach laboratory and field instruments, chemical and reagents, and process instrumentations; Vaisala automation weather stations, aviation weather systems, surrounding systems and radiosondes, weather radars, ceilometers, thunderstorm and lightning detection systems; and Bacharach gas analyzers.