Saudi Arabia receives bids for Jizan airport

04 June 2013

Client received prices from 17 groups for main construction package

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Civil Aviation (Gaca) has opened bids from 17 groups for the contract to build the new King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jizan.

The contractors submitted bids on 3 June for the construction contract, which will involve building a three-storey passenger terminal, a control tower, air cargo zones and other facilities. The terminal will have 10 gates and a VIP lounge.

A consortium of the local Saudi Lebanese Modern Construction Company, the local Safari and Safari & Salmoc and the local Al-Subaie submitted the low bid of SR2.57bn ($685m). This was 7 per cent less than the SR2.76bn price submitted by the second-lowest bidder, the local Saudi Pan Kingdom Company (SAPAC). .

The local Saudi Binladin submitted the third-lowest bid of SR2.83bn, which was followed by the SR2.88bn price from a consortium of the local Bin Jarallah and the local ECO. The consortium of the local Al-Mabani and Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) submitted a bid of SR2.94bn, which was matched by the local Al-Khodari.

The airport will be located 30 kilometres from Jizan Economic City (JEC). It will have the capacity to handle up to 2.4 million passengers a year. The Jizan scheme is part of Gaca’s plans to spend $10.66bn on building new airports until 2030. Gaca is planning additional new airports at Al-Qasim and Abha.

Gaca is also undertaking major projects to expand the kingdom’s existing airports. In May, the airport body awarded an estimated SR1.5bn contract to Turkey’s TAV and the local Al-Arrab ContractingCompany to build the new Terminal 5 building at King Khalid International airport in Riyadh.

Terminal 5 is part of the significant expansion programme for King Khalid International, which will increase the airport’s annual capacity to about 24 million passengers from the current 14 million.

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