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14 THE NATION TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015
BUSINESS NEWS
NCP okays bidders’ proposal for Warri terminal
THE National Council on Privatisation
(NCP) has directed
that the seven
prequalified bidders that successfully
met the 70 per cent scores
from the evaluation of Expressions
of Interest (EoIs) for prospective
concessionaires for Terminal B
Warri Old Port are to be issued with
the Request for Proposals (RfP).
The bidders are: Bright Ocean Integrated
Services, Transnet Rosehill
Group, Solent Stevedores International,
Neon Adani Ports Consortium,
Marine Infrastructure Consortium,
Ecomarine Consortium
and Global Infrastructure.
The Council under the Chairmanship
of Vice President Namadi
Sambo directed the Bureau of Public
Enterprises (BPE) to issue the
RFPs to the prequalified bidders.
A statement endorsed by Head,
Public Communication, Bureau for
Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr.
Chigbo Anichebe explained that the
From John Ofikhenua, Abuja
decision was the outcome of the
Council’s April 16 meeting.
He recalled that following the approval
of the NCP, advertisements
seeking EoIs from prospective
ARIK Air paid over N4 billion
to the Federal Airports
Authority of Nigeria
(FAAN ), for landing , parking fees,
rent, passenger service charge
(PSC), and fuel surcharge last year.
The payments, it was gathered
were made for the months of January,
February, March , April, June ,
July, September and December last
year.
The N4 billion investigations, further
revealed, is contrary to claims by
sources close to FAAN, which claimed
that the carrier has not been paying
By Kelvin Osa Okunbor
its bills since it began operations eight
years ago.
Investigations reveal that Arik Air
in January last year paid
N335,562,212.50; N318,575,022.50 in
February and N327,359,180 in March.
In April, it paid N370,417,622.50 while
in June same year , it paid N349,471,655.
In July, the airline paid N315,530,737.50.
In September and December , it paid
N344,486,305 and N477,232,605.50 respectively
to the Federal government.
Arik Air pays N4 billion to Fed Govt
“ The total amount paid to FAAN in
2014 was N3,941,023,995. This is contrary
to claims that the airline has not been
paying its bills,”a source close to the carrier
said on condition of anonymity.
FAAN according to investigations said
the airline owes about N287,834,450.47
and $8,192.00 for its Abuja operations .
FAAN, in a letter endorsed by
its Regional Manager, Abuja Airport
Engineer O.O Osituyo to the
Arik Arik Station Manager, Abuja
put the debt accruing on the electronic
platform hitherto operated
by Maevis Limited at
Concessionaires for Terminal ‘B’
Warri Old Port were placed in
some selected National Dailies on
June 23, 2014 and bids were received
on August 7, last year.
At the close of the submission, 13
EoIs were harvested and subsequently
evaluated. The evaluation
was based on responsive test and
detailed assessment test of the 13
EoIs. Only seven applicants passed
the assessment.
The evaluation committee recommended
70 per cent as the minimum
pass mark and further recommended
that the seven successful
applicants that met the minimum
pass mark and above be
prequalified to move to the next
stage for the issuance of the Request
for proposal (RfPs).
N470,338,773,68 and $1,748.90 respectively.
FAAN said the debts covered landing
and parking fees, passenger service
charge , rent , service recovery charge
for operations at Abuja Airport.
Last week, officials of FAAN disrupted
Arik Air’s operations at the Nnamdi
Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Hundreds of passengers were affected
by the disrupted operations.
The officials denied the airline’s staff
access to their duty post making it
impossible to process passengers for
departures out of Abuja.