14 companies bid for Asaba airport concession
By Offor Onukwuwe On 17/01/2016
No fewer than 14 compa­nies have started bidding for the proposed conces­sioning of the Asaba International Airport in Delta State.
The firms include BGL Con­sortium, FBN Capital, Infrasturc­tural Bank Plc, One Dott Aviation, Rougton International Consor­tium, Ponclef Associates Limited and Planet Capital Consortium, Enterprise Integratus.
The AUTHORITY on Sunday also gathered that Halcro Infra­structure Consortium, Deloids, PWC, Rosecross, Ed-field Part­ners Consortium and Vetiva Capi­tal Management Limited have also shown interest in the airport.
The state government had, in its bid to upgrade the standard of the airport few weeks ago, invited interested parties to bid as trans­action adviser in the concession pact.
During the opening of the con­cession exercise in Asaba at the weekend, Prof. Sylvester Monye, the Senior Policy Adviser to Gov­ernor Ifeanyi Okowa, supported by counterpart in Economic Plan­ning, Barr. George Orogun, said only a company with technical capability, quality aviation expe­rience and strong financial base, would be considered.
His words, “I am excited that this event is taking a lead in the state. This is a new Delta state. We have friends who can bid for the concession but because we want the best for the state and the business as usual, we decided to throw the bidding process open for healthy competition.”
Monye, who was the former Senior Special Adviser to Presi­dent Goodluck Jonathan on Proj­ect Monitoring and Evaluation, and whose new office had been nicknamed, Governor Okowa’s Delivery Unit, said Delta state would be represented in Turkey for the proposed Airport Public-Private-Partnersip (PPP) meeting, designed purely for airport con­cessioning. He said the process of transparency the concessioning transaction had passed through since it was made public had laid the presumption that a consor­tium had been handpicked to rest.
While the representatives of the 14 companies expressed their pre­paredness to lead the transaction both in technical experience and financial strength, the Ideal Dab­ster Consortium that failed to beat the deadline for the submission of advisory note, was rejected.

This is the best... the federal government should follow this. .. . Using the LNG pattern
Government owns 60% yet the private companies manage the business with supervision for FAAN

mrvitalis:
This is the best... the federal government should follow this. .. . Using the LNG pattern
Government owns 60% yet the private companies manage the business with supervision for FAAN

Only if our govt is interested in real economic development!.Govt should build the Anambra/Onitsha International Airport & with Asaba,PortHarcourt,Lagos,Abuja & Kano Airports Nigeria will be earning billions of Naira as revenue!.

Better.



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