Federal Govt. Closes Request For Airport Concession Qualification
The Request for Qualification (RFQ) for the concession of four international airports in the country has closed.
The airports proposed for concessions are: Murtala Muhammed International airport Lagos; Nnamdi Azikwe International airport Abuja; Aminu Kanu International Airport Kano and the Port Harcourt international airport.
The call for the request was announced on August 16, 2021.
Giving an update on the concession process, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ministry of Aviation, James Odaudu in a statement in Abuja on Monday stated that the application for qualification came to a close on Monday by 3 pm.
The statement reads: “The Federal Ministry of Aviation, in line with the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (establishment, etc.) Act, 2005, and global best practice, hereby informs all stakeholders, local and international, development partners, and members of the media, that the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) phase of the Nigeria Airport Concessions programme (NACP), has come to a close at 15:00HRS local time (Nigeria), October 25th 2021.
“This deadline, announced on September 13, 2021, after close deliberations with ICRC and the transaction advisers, allowed for a four-week extension in response to numerous requests from would-be bidders.”
The ministry of aviation, the Transaction Advisers and the Project Steering Committee have duly notified the ICRC of this milestone, and have now stopped receiving submissions in response to the published RFQ.
The Minister, Senator Hadi Sirika thanked all those who participated in the process for their interest and respective submissions.
According to Sirika: “The amount of response to the request for pre-qualification by highly reputable international airport operators across the globe is indicative of the level of confidence that people have in our concession programme, and, by extension, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“As we promised from the onset, we remain committed to ensuring the highest level of transparency and accountability till the end of the process. This is because we believe that the programme is in the best interest of Nigerians as a people, and Nigeria as a nation”.
