Six foreign players enter bids for Okecie airport terminal

Six consortia led by foreign giants have placed preliminary bids for a $350 million contract to build a new passenger terminal at Warsaw's Okecie Airport, the state-owned company running the airport said. Panstwowe Porty Lotnicze (PPL) said the bids had been placed by Austrian Bau Holding's Strabag, French Bouygues, Spanish Ferrovial, German Hochtief, Bilflinger+Berger and Swedish Skanska. Poland opened a two-stage tender for the design and building of the passenger terminal at Warsaw international airport in August last year. Builders, which were put on the shortlist in the so-called pre-qualifying stage last year, had until Monday to place their initial offers. The new passenger terminal's capacity should reach 6.5 million people a year. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p.3; Reuters)