The Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has invited seven international companies to submit bids by 29 September for the consultancy contract to build a second terminal at Kuwait International Airport (KIA) and upgrade existing facilities (MEED 14:6:02).
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. Phase 1 calls for the upgrade of the existing masterplan for terminal 1. The second phase will involve carrying out a financial feasibility study for the proposed new terminal.
DGCA plans to construct the second terminal on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis. The new facility will have a capacity to handle 5 million passengers a year and is due to be completed by late 2006.
The project is estimated to cost KD 40 million-50 million ($129 million-160 million).
DGCA plans more work at KIA, including a new helicopter terminal (MEED 8:8:03).
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