The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) received 222 bids for its public tender for the lease and operation of seven stalls to be set up in the future food court in the Tamagnini Barbosa Market, before the submission deadline on Friday.
The Tamagnini Barbosa district in the northern peninsula is known as Toi San in Cantonese.
The bureau launched the tender on April 1. Potential bidders were required to submit their tenders by 1 p.m. on Friday last week.
The bureau announced the number of bids submitted for the tender in a statement on Friday.
The two-floor Toi San Market opened in 2005.
The bureau, the public entity tasked with managing the city’s wet markets, is scheduled to launch a project in the next quarter to revitalise the Toi San Market. The project will include converting the entire first floor into a food court with around 150 seats.
In addition to various stalls selling fresh food and traditional groceries across the market’s two floors, the wet-market municipal complex in Toi San district currently has nine stalls selling local favourites on the ground floor. However, the building currently does not have a dedicated cooked food centre with a dining area.
The upcoming revamp will convert the entire first floor into a food court with 16 stalls, while the entire ground floor will be dedicated to selling fresh food and traditional groceries. The ground floor will be reconfigured to house 23 stalls to be operated by the current stallholders selling fresh food and traditional groceries.
The current nine stalls selling local delicacies will be relocated to the future food court on the first floor. The other seven stalls will be allocated to new operators through the public tender that was launched early last month.
The bureau will now start assessing the submitted bids based on various criteria in order to choose the winners of the seven stalls.
The revamp project was initially slated to start in the first quarter of 2026. However, the bureau announced in a press conference in March that the project was now scheduled to get off the ground in the third quarter of 2026.
The new version of an artist’s rendition released by the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) in March shows the future food court on the first floor of the Toi San Market.
