site.btaFrench-Turkish Consortium Offers Highest Annual Concession Fee for Sofia Airport
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French-Turkish Consortium
Offers Highest Annual Concession Fee
for Sofia Airport
Sofia, May 9 (BTA) - All five bidders for the concession of Sofia Airport participated in Thursday's public opening of their offers. A consortium between France's Aeroports de Paris and Turkey's TAV Havalimanlari Holding emerged as the front-runner, having offered the highest annual concession fee of nearly 32.82 million euro.
At 26.5 million euro, the second highest offer is that of UBB Consortium Sofia Airport JV with BSB Sauerwain & Scheffer Bau AG as the leading member.
SOF Connect Consortium with Meridiam Eastern Europe Investments SAS as the leading member offered 24.5 million euro a year.
Fraport Bulgaria EAD offered 21 million euro.
At nearly 20 million euro, Vitosha Consortium with Manchester Airport Group Superior Investments Limited as the leading member made the lowest offer.
All five offers exceed considerably the minimum concession fee of 15 million leva, exclusive of VAT, or 10 per cent of the total revenues from all activities in the relevant year.
The requirements for the 35-year concession include building a new terminal and a new runway within a ten-year period.
In a statement after the public opening of the offers, Transport, IT and Communications Minister Rossen Zheliazkov said: "The process of evaluating the offers will be difficult and very responsible."
"We shall rely on our consultants. We have a close partnership with the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We shall pursue every possible means to come to a correct, fair and comprehensive evaluation of the offers," Zheliazkov said.
He expressed satisfaction with the fact that all applicants were admitted to the procedure.
Zheliazkov is adamant that the concession award commission chaired by Deputy Transport Minister Velik Zanchev will need more than a month to do its job.
After a contractor is selected, the decision is appealable before the Commission for Protection of Competition.
The procedure includes evaluation of the financial proposals with a 55 per cent weight and of the technical proposals with a 45 per cent weight.
Before the public opening of the bids, Zheliazkov announced that this is a public-private partnership procedure, which is relatively new. He underscored that all documents are kept in safes under 24-hour surveillance and that this is the first entirely digital procedure. Only the binding offers were submitted in hard copy. They were read out by the members of the commission at their opening. IG/BR//
LN1629NW.109
109 ECONOMY - TRANSPORT - CONCESSION - SOFIA AIRPORT
French-Turkish Consortium
Offers Highest Annual Concession Fee
for Sofia Airport
Sofia, May 9 (BTA) - All five bidders for the concession of Sofia Airport participated in Thursday's public opening of their offers. A consortium between France's Aeroports de Paris and Turkey's TAV Havalimanlari Holding emerged as the front-runner, having offered the highest annual concession fee of nearly 32.82 million euro.
At 26.5 million euro, the second highest offer is that of UBB Consortium Sofia Airport JV with BSB Sauerwain & Scheffer Bau AG as the leading member.
SOF Connect Consortium with Meridiam Eastern Europe Investments SAS as the leading member offered 24.5 million euro a year.
Fraport Bulgaria EAD offered 21 million euro.
At nearly 20 million euro, Vitosha Consortium with Manchester Airport Group Superior Investments Limited as the leading member made the lowest offer.
All five offers exceed considerably the minimum concession fee of 15 million leva, exclusive of VAT, or 10 per cent of the total revenues from all activities in the relevant year.
The requirements for the 35-year concession include building a new terminal and a new runway within a ten-year period.
In a statement after the public opening of the offers, Transport, IT and Communications Minister Rossen Zheliazkov said: "The process of evaluating the offers will be difficult and very responsible."
"We shall rely on our consultants. We have a close partnership with the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We shall pursue every possible means to come to a correct, fair and comprehensive evaluation of the offers," Zheliazkov said.
He expressed satisfaction with the fact that all applicants were admitted to the procedure.
Zheliazkov is adamant that the concession award commission chaired by Deputy Transport Minister Velik Zanchev will need more than a month to do its job.
After a contractor is selected, the decision is appealable before the Commission for Protection of Competition.
The procedure includes evaluation of the financial proposals with a 55 per cent weight and of the technical proposals with a 45 per cent weight.
Before the public opening of the bids, Zheliazkov announced that this is a public-private partnership procedure, which is relatively new. He underscored that all documents are kept in safes under 24-hour surveillance and that this is the first entirely digital procedure. Only the binding offers were submitted in hard copy. They were read out by the members of the commission at their opening. IG/BR//
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