The Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure has received 10 bids in the first stage of a tender for a public-private partnership for Zagreb Airport, the State Secretary for Infrastructure and chairman of the commission in charge of granting a concession for the construction of a new terminal at Zagreb Airport, Tomislav Mihotic, told a press conference on Tuesday after the opening of the bids.
The bids will be assessed until May 19 to see which of them meet the bidding terms, and then a second round of bidding will be called for qualified bidders to submit their financial offers. The planned deadline for the selection of the best bidder is end September and the signing of the contract is planned for October. Construction work is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2012, according to Mihotic.
The key qualifying terms for the second round of bidding are that a bidder may not own an airline, must be independent of a government budget and may not have a considerable stake in airports within a 400 km radius of Zagreb.
They must have a record of managing an airport with over 10 million passengers in the last three years, must be without losses in the last three years and must have an annual money flow of at leat 50 million euros in the last three years, Mihotic said.
The total value of the investment in the first stage is 192 million euros.
(Hina)
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Received requests submitted individually or jointly by following bidders:
1) GMR Infrastructure Ltd.
Flughafen Munchen GmbH
2) IC
Incheon International Airport Corporation
3) TAV Airports Holding
TAV Construction
4) ADC & HAS Airports Inc.
ALPINE BAU Gmbh
FCC Constuccion S.A
5) J&P AVAX S
Athens International Airport S.A.
6) Vinci Concessions
7) Hochtief Concessions AG
8) ZAIC – A Ltd
9) Flughafen Zurich AG
Strabag AG
10) Limak – French Riviera Airports Consortium