FG  closes request for qualification of airports concession programme

The Federal Ministry of Aviation, in line with the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Act, 2005, and global best practice, has announced that the Request for Qualifications (RfQ) phase of the Nigeria Airport Concessions programme (NACP), has come to a close on Monday, October 25. 

This deadline, announced on September 13, 2021, after close deliberations with transaction advisers, allowed for a four-week extension in response to numerous requests from would-be bidders. 

According to a statement by James Odaudu, the Ministry of Aviation, the transaction advisers and the Project Steering Committee have duly notified the ICRC of this milestone, and have now stopped receiving submissions in response to the published RfQ. 

Aviation Minister, Senator Hadi Sirika, thanked all those who participated in the process for their interest and respective submissions. 

“The amount of response to the request for pre-qualification by highly reputable international airport operators across the globe is indicative of the level of confidence that people have in our concession programme, and,  by extension, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“As we promised from the onset, we remain committed to ensuring the highest level of transparency and accountability till the end of the process. This is because we believe that the programme is in the best interest of Nigerians as a people, and Nigeria as a nation,” Sirika stated.

The statement added that the “Ministry of Aviation reminds all stakeholders that this is a multistage programme and that RFQ stage will be followed with a Request For Proposal (RFP) which shall be published and sent directly to qualified bidders for their response.  

“Qualified bidders shall be announced once the bid opening committee has received, opened and reviewed each submission based on the detailed Terms of reference (TOR) and RFQ guidelines contained in the RFQ bidders package.”

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