Ending speculations over the privatization of Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, Airport Authority of India has invited proposals for operations and management of the airport. The tender invited for the proposals was released by AAI on Saturday.
The Union cabinet had given an in-principle approval for leasing out six airports of AAI, including Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Mangalore and Trivandrum, for operation, management and development under public-private partnership (PPP) through public-private partnership appraisal committee (PPPAC) on November 8. It was proposed as a move to bring efficiency in service delivery, expertise, enterprise and professionalism, apart from investments in the public sector.
As per the AAI tender, the concessionaire will be entrusted with the responsibility of operations and management of the existing airport assets as well as for designing, engineering, financing, construction and development of the additional air-side, terminal, city-side and land-side infrastructure for the airport.
The term of concession agreement is mentioned as 50 years in the tender document. And concessionaire will have to pay a per-passenger fee for each passenger (both domestic and international) on a monthly basis to the authority. While the concessionaire is permitted to collect charges from users of the airport facilities.
A pre-bid conference regarding the tender is scheduled to be held on January 17, while the technical bid and financial bid will be opened on February 16 and on February 25 respectively. As per the proposal, letter of award will be issued on February 28.
The airport authority has also appointed two officials to monitor the bidding process and execution of concession agreement. And a data room has been arranged for bidders to visit the airport and ascertain the site conditions, traffic, location, surroundings, climate, availability of power, water and other utilities for access to the site, handling and storage of materials, weather data and applicable laws and regulations.
However, the airport employees have decided to obstruct the entry of any person to the data room, in protest against the move to privatize the airport. The city corporation is its recent council meeting has passed a resolution against the privatization of the airport. Also, the state government has proposed to form an SPV to take over the airport management.
17/12/18 ANasooya S/Times of India
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The Union cabinet had given an in-principle approval for leasing out six airports of AAI, including Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Mangalore and Trivandrum, for operation, management and development under public-private partnership (PPP) through public-private partnership appraisal committee (PPPAC) on November 8. It was proposed as a move to bring efficiency in service delivery, expertise, enterprise and professionalism, apart from investments in the public sector.
As per the AAI tender, the concessionaire will be entrusted with the responsibility of operations and management of the existing airport assets as well as for designing, engineering, financing, construction and development of the additional air-side, terminal, city-side and land-side infrastructure for the airport.
The term of concession agreement is mentioned as 50 years in the tender document. And concessionaire will have to pay a per-passenger fee for each passenger (both domestic and international) on a monthly basis to the authority. While the concessionaire is permitted to collect charges from users of the airport facilities.
A pre-bid conference regarding the tender is scheduled to be held on January 17, while the technical bid and financial bid will be opened on February 16 and on February 25 respectively. As per the proposal, letter of award will be issued on February 28.
The airport authority has also appointed two officials to monitor the bidding process and execution of concession agreement. And a data room has been arranged for bidders to visit the airport and ascertain the site conditions, traffic, location, surroundings, climate, availability of power, water and other utilities for access to the site, handling and storage of materials, weather data and applicable laws and regulations.
However, the airport employees have decided to obstruct the entry of any person to the data room, in protest against the move to privatize the airport. The city corporation is its recent council meeting has passed a resolution against the privatization of the airport. Also, the state government has proposed to form an SPV to take over the airport management.
17/12/18 ANasooya S/Times of India
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