Airport tender hots up
The seven companies taking part in the tender to build the new passenger terminal at Warsaw’s Okęcie airport have until 12 February to get their bids in. In April a maximum of three will be chosen and the final winner will be known at the end of the year. The contract is worth USD350m.
Originally there were 14 companies in the race although half of them were not chosen to go through to the current stage.
The airports authority PPL has not released the names of the companies now competing. However it is known that they are Budimex together with its Spanish partner Ferrovial, Mostostal Zabrze together with the German Philip Holzman, Mitex alongside the French Bouygues, the Austrian Bau Holding, the Swedish Skanska and two German companies - Hochtief and Bilfinger+ Berger. Three of them will go forward at the beginning of April to the next stage.
The plan is to build a second, 110,000sqm terminal. There will be 77 check in counters and eleven for transit passengers. A cargo terminal will be build alongside a multi-storey car park, hotel and internal roads and railway. This investment is being paid for from the authority's own funds, with nothing coming from the state.