"Pre-qualifiers submit Brazil's Santos Dumont airport offers"

Monday, July 12, 2004

Pre-qualifiers submit Santos Dumont airport offers
BNamericas.com


The six groups that pre-qualified earlier this year to be in the running
to expand Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airport have submitted
technical and economic bids, an official from Brazil's federal airport
authority Infraero told BNamericas.

The bidders are construction and engineering firm Camargo Correa and
five consortiums made up of companies including OAS, Carioca, Odebrecht,
Andrade Gutierrez, Mendes Junior and Techint. 

Infraero plans to invest some 230mn reais (US$75.7mn) to add some 60,000
sq. m. to the airport terminal, as well as a parking garage and hotel.
The airport receives some 6 million passengers/y, though it was designed
to handle 3 million. 

The official said economic offers of those groups that meet the bidding
rules' technical aspects could be opened as early as next month, with
contract signing and works startup slated to begin by year-end. 

Authorities expect works to be completed in 2006, just in time to handle
the increased demand for the 2007 Pan-American games, and in the lead up
to possible hosting of the 2012 Olympic games that Rio hopes to secure.


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