EXCLUSIVE: Client starts prequalification for airport extension

04 November 2018
Client is evaluating bids for the project management consultancy contract for the airport scheme

Hamad International Airport (HIA) Steering Committee has requested firms to prequalify by 2 December for contracts to expand Hamad International airport.

MEED understands the request concerns separate contracts for the extension of the main passenger terminal building, apron, baggage handling facility and baggage handling system.

The evaluation process for the project management consultancy (PMC) contract bids is underway.

The teams understood to have submitted a bid for the PMC contract earlier this year include:

The planned expansion aims to double the airport’s capacity to 60 million passengers a year by 2021, a year prior to the staging in Qatar of the Fifa World Cup.

Sources told MEED earlier this year they expect the client to tender the design and build contract for the airport expansion work “soon”.

Singapore-based Meinhardt Group is also understood to be reviewing the original design and has conducted a value engineering study for the planned expansion of the airport.

In early 2017, MEED reported that the government had approved the budget for the airport expansion.

Hamad International processed 120 million passengers from 2014 to 2017.

The $17bn airport, which opened in 2014, exceeded its capacity in 2016. It processed 37.3 million visitors during that year against its design capacity of 30 million passengers annually.

However, it is understood passenger traffic at the airport fell by more than 30 per cent in 2017. National carrier Qatar Airways also reported a $69m loss last year.

 

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