Polish construction firms cut out of Okecie terminal bid

No Polish construction companies fulfill the criteria for competing in the tender for building the new $350 million passenger terminal at Warsaw' s Okecie airport. The criteria require for example bidders to have recorded annual revenues of at least euro 200 million over the past three years. This barrier could be overcome by grouping companies into a consortium, but there are even tougher restrictions. Companies participating in the tender are required to have constructed airport terminals with a capacity of 5 million-10 million passengers a year. No Polish firm has ever done that as no such terminal has ever been built in Poland. The only way a Polish company could win the lucrative contract is with the backing of a foreign investor who has the necessary experience, such as Exbud S.A.'s owner Skanska of Sweden or Spanish Ferrovial, which controls Budimex S.A. (Parkiet, page 4)