Bids submitted for Kuwait airport contract

10 October 2003
Seven international companies submitted bids by 4 October for the consultancy contract to build a second terminal at Kuwait International Airport (KIA) and to upgrade the existing facilities. They are NACOof the Netherlands, the UK office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Germany's Dorsch Consult, Mott MacDonaldof the UK and Fentress Bradburn & Associates, Louis Berger International and Skidmore Owings & Merrill, all of the US.

The contract will be carried out in two phases and will take nine months to complete. It will cover the upgrade of the existing masterplan for terminal 1, prepared by NACO, and a financial feasibility study for the new terminal. The client is the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation, which plans the construction of the second terminal on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis. The new facility will have capacity of 5 million passengers a year. The project is estimated to cost KD 40 million-50 million ($129 million-160 million - MEED 19:9:03; 14:6:02).

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