Saudi aviation authority tenders 12 airport projects: report

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has invited bids for four work package contracts to develop 12 different domestic airports, MEED reported on Monday. The four packages cover greenfield projects, which are aimed to develop a new airport or terminal and related facilities in an existing airport; and brownfield projects that include rehabilitation and upgrade of existing terminals and related facilities. Contracting firms will submit bids no later than November 15. No further details were provided about the value of the contracts.

The packages will be tendered using conventional procurement methods and will include:

1) Al-Baha brownfield airport on a total area of 160,181 square meters

2) Sharurah brownfield airport on a total area of 146,899 sqm

3) Qunfudhah greenfield project on a total area of 6.05 million sqm

4) Wadi Al-Dawasir brownfield airport on a total area of 145,708 sqm

5) Najran greenfield project on a total area of 6.84 million sqm

6) Wajh brownfield airport on a total area of 556,476 sqm

7) Al-Jouf brownfield airport on a total area of 374,956 sqm

8) Qurayyat brownfield airport on a total area of 191,349 sqm

9) Farasan greenfield project on a total area of 5.5 million sqm

10) Rafha brownfield airport on a total area of 166,805 sqm

11) Qaisumah brownfield airport on a total area of 190,845 sqm

12) Turaif brownfield airport on a total area of 166,220 sqm