Sofia Airport Concession Tender Deadline moved to April 2019
Bulgaria’s Transport Ministry has postponed the deadline for bids in the tender for the 35-year concession on Sofia Airport for a fourth time, to April 3 2019.
The previous deadline was February 5, but the Transport Ministry initially sought to receive binding bids by October 22 2018, which was pushed back to November 22 and, later, to January 29 2019.
Previously, the ministry gave no reasons for its decisions to postpone the deadline, but this time it said that the delay had been requested by interested bidders.
So far, Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which operates the Manchester, East Midlands and London Stansted airports, has said it planned to make a bid in the tender.
Media reports have named Germany’s Fraport, which holds the concession on the Varna and Bourgas airports at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, France’s Aeroports de Paris and Switzerland’s Flughaven Zurich as interested parties that could join the race for Bulgaria’s largest air hub.
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