Bids for the Airport Design Build and Operate Contract
By the deadline for submission of tenders for the St Helena airport at 5:00 pm BST on 10 June, we received a single tender from Basil Read (Pty) Ltd.
We will now proceed to evaluate this tender to assess whether the conditions set out by the Secretary to State in his written statement of 22 July 2010 can be met.
Access & Shipping Directorate
10 June 2011
Procurement Of Project Management Unit
Now that the pause status has been lifted for the airport project, and a new Invitation to Tender has been issued, we are once again able to go out to the market to seek to engage the services of a suitably qualified Project Management Unit (PMU).
The PMU is due to provide the effective management and construction supervision of the airport contract, and the coordination and negotiation of other services such as the air service provider and the bulk fuel supplier.
A notice to this effect was issued in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on Monday 14th February with the closing date for responses on Wednesday 23rd March.
The OJEU notice states that we are expecting the airport contract to commence around November 2011, and therefore that would be the time from when the PMU would be needed. However, as we all know, the airport will only go ahead if HMG’s four conditions can be met and November 2011 is only possible if we can reach an acceptable conclusion with Basil Read or Impregilo SpA. November 2011 will not be achievable if we are forced to re-tender the project in the open market.
Sharon Wainwright
SHG Director of Access & Shipping
Posted on 15 February 2011
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Airport Project Update – Invitation To Tender
We are pleased to advise that all of the preparatory work to finalise the Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents for the Airport Design, Build and Operate (DBO) contract has been completed.
We will now send the Invitation to Tender to Impregilo SpA and Basil Read Pty.
No other parties are being invited to submit tenders and we will only consider re-tendering the contract in the open market if we are unable to reach an acceptable contract with either Impregilo SpA or Basil Read Pty.
Both companies have confirmed their intention to tender for the works and we will await their proposals. The closing date for tender submission is Tuesday 3rd May 2011.
Sharon Wainwright
SHG Director of Access & Shipping
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