The Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission, the Federal Government agency supervising the concession of the nation’s four main international airports, has completed the evaluation of 13 companies that have submitted Requests for Qualification to participate in the bidding process.
The development came about five weeks after the Federal Government closed the RFQ on October 25, 2021, having extended the deadline from September 25, 2021. The ICRC had revealed that a total of 13 airport consortia, comprising local and foreign companies, submitted bids to be prequalified for the planned concession of the four airports.
The PUNCH had also reported that Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, operators of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Terminal Two, Lagos, was among the firms that submitted the RFQs for the airport concession programme. Maevis Nigeria Limited, a local firm and former concessionaire with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, was also among the bidders.
Others include operators of the Singapore’s Changi Airport, operators of France’s Charles de Gaulle Airport, and operators of Ethiopia’s Airport. Speaking with The PUNCH in an exclusive interview on Thursday, the spokesperson for the ICRC, Mrs Manji Yarling, revealed that the agency had completed the evaluation of the 13 companies that submitted RFQs.
